CVE-2009-2433: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 18.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the AddFavorite method in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a long URL in the first argument.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 8.0b only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.5730 only; version 7.0.5730.11 only; version 7.00.5730.1100 only; version 7.00.6000.16386 only; …

Published 2009-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.