CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1185

Published: Dec 11, 2002 | Modified: Jul 23, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ie Microsoft 6.0-sp1 (including) 6.0-sp1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.0.1 (including) 5.0.1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.0.1-sp1 (including) 5.0.1-sp1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.0.1-sp2 (including) 5.0.1-sp2 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5-sp1 (including) 5.5-sp1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5-sp2 (including) 5.5-sp2 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)

References