Intrusion PreventionMS.IE.FindText.Unicode.Parsing.DoS
Description
This indicates an attack attempt to exploit a Unicode Parsing DoS vulnerability
in MS Internet Explorer.
The vulnerability is located in the method findText. It will likely cause the program to crash,resulting in a denial of service condition.
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Impact
Denial of Service: Remote attackers can crash vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Currently we are not aware of any vendor supplied patch for this issue.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 26614 |
| Created | May 11, 2011 |
| Updated | Mar 04, 2022 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2009-2655 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 1.78% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | IE |