CVE-2002-1185 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Microsoft Internet Explorer
3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
29.2%
top 3.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 11
Latest updateApr 30
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."
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9