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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2002-12-11

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Ie (Microsoft)
• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

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