CVE-2009-2576: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: any version; version 2.0 only; version 2.0_beta only; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.01 only; …
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 6.0.2900.2180; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; …

Published 2009-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.