CVE-2002-2061

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Heap-based buffer overflow in Netscape 6.2.3 and Mozilla 1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash client browsers and execute arbitrary code via a PNG image with large width and height values and an 8-bit or 16-bit alpha channel.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Netscape 6.2.3 and Mozilla 1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash client browsers and execute arbitrary code via a PNG image with large width and height values and an 8-bit or 16-bit alpha channel.

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

First reported 22 years ago

2002-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:16:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Mozilla

Netscape Netscape 6.2.3

6.2.3

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157202

Patch

links-png-image-bo(9287)

Patch

MDKSA-2002:074

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html

Patch

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