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CVE-2002-1185

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
11/12/2002
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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