The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the location variable within the loop.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Internet_explorer | Microsoft | 6.0.2900 (including) | 6.0.2900 (including) |