CVE-2009-2764: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0.7100.0 on Windows 7 RC on the x64 platform allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain DIV element in conjunction with SCRIPT elements that have empty contents and no reference to a valid external script location.

Affected products

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 8.0.7100.0 only
  • Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified

Published 2009-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.