Vulnerability Details CVE-2002-1185
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."
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.292
EPSS Ranking 96.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2
- http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.html
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6216
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A393
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A542
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2
- http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.html
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6216
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A393
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A542
Products affected by CVE-2002-1185
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0