CVE-2002-1185
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 1, 2004
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 4, 2002
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."
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- MS02-066vendor-advisory
- 6216vdb-entry
- AD20021211third-party-advisory
- 20021212 PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Deflate Heap Corruption Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:542vdb-entrysignature
- ie-png-bo(10662)vdb-entry
- 20021211 PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Deflate Heap Corruption Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:393vdb-entrysignature
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