CVE-2002-1185
Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly check certain parameters of a PNG file when opening it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow using invalid length codes during…
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Description
Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly check certain parameters of a PNG file when opening it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow using invalid length codes during decompression, aka "Malformed PNG Image File Failure."
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 21.34% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/ie · microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2
- http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.html
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6216
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A393
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A542
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2
- http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.html
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6216
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A393
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A542
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.