Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-07T13:23:50.909Z

Reserved: 2007-04-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-2161

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-04-22T19:19:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-2161

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