Microsoft Internet Explorer Bitmap File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

It has been reported that Internet Explorer may be prone to a denial of service vulnerability when processing malformed bitmap files. An attacker can cause a denial of service condition in the system by specifying a large value for a bitmap file to be loaded by the browser.

This attack may lead to a denial of service condition in the system to the exhaustion of memory resources.


 

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