CVE-2002-0022

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in the implementation of an HTML directive in mshtml.dll in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web page that specifies embedded ActiveX controls in a way that causes 2 Unicode strings to be concatenated.

Buffer overflow in the implementation of an HTML directive in mshtml.dll in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web page that specifies embedded ActiveX controls in a way that causes 2 Unicode strings to be concatenated.

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

Microsoft

First reported 22 years ago

2002-03-08 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft ie 5.5

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

20020213 dH & SECURITY.NNOV: buffer overflow in mshtml.dll

20020227 Details and exploitation of buffer overflow in mshtml.dll (and few sidenotes on Unicode overflows in general)

CA-2002-04

Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

ie-html-directive-bo(8116)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

4080

MS02-005

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:925

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