Resource exhaustion in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2009-3270

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 7.0.6000.16711 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unusable browser) by calling the window.print function in a loop, aka a "printing DoS attack," possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-0821.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.282 (97.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet_explorer
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Tool Signature, signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID)