CVE-1999-1189

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.7 for Windows 95 and Windows 98 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument after the ? character in a URL that references an .asp, .cgi, .html, or .pl file.

Buffer overflow in Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.7 for Windows 95 and Windows 98 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long argument after the ? character in a URL that references an .asp, .cgi, .html, or .pl file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Netscape

First reported 25 years ago

1999-11-24 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Netscape Communicator 4.7

4.7

Netscape Navigator 4.7

4.7

References

19991124 Netscape Communicator 4.7 - Navigator Overflows

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

19991127 Netscape Communicator 4.7 - Navigator Overflows

Vendor Advisory

822

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

netscape-long-argument-bo(7884)

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