Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2002-0101

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.

EPSS: 0.124 (95.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.5, 6.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)