CVE-2007-2161 Information

Description

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 /(.)*/.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/43314 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715