CVE-2002-1185
N/A
Published: September 1, 2004 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorInternet ExplorerIe
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 21%
Description
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
Mailing Listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_EEYE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.phpVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MS
Source: [email protected]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Source: [email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A393VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Source: [email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A542Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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