| Vulnerability Name: | CCN-8941 | ||||||
| Published: | 2002-04-24 | ||||||
| Updated: | 2002-04-24 | ||||||
| Summary: | Microsoft Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by a recursive onError event. A remote attacker could create a malicious Web page containing a recursive JavaScript onError event, which would result in a loop in Internet Explorer that could cause a stack overflow. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a victim's browser to crash, or to possibly crash the system entirely, if the victim is running Windows 95 or Windows 98. | ||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 7.5 High (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 7.8 High (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
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| Vulnerability Consequences: | Denial of Service | ||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Apr 24 2002 - 09:54:49 CDT IE DoS and possibly exploitable stack overflow Source: CCN Type: BID-4583 Internet Explorer Recursive JavaScript Event Denial of Service Vulnerability Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN ie-jscript-onerror-dos(8941) | ||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration CCN 1: Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||
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