CVE-2002-1185

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
29.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: December 11, 2002 (8555 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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."

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.eeye.com 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.securityfocus.com