cbcvebase.
CVE-2002-1185
published 2002-12-11

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…

PriorityP426medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EPSS
21.34%
97.3th percentile
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

4 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftie
microsoftinternet_explorer
microsoftinternet_explorer
microsoftinternet_explorer
Stop checking back — get the weekly exploitation signal.

Every Monday: what got weaponized or added to CISA KEV in the last seven days — each CVE cross-linked to its PoC, Nuclei template, and detection rule. Free, one email a week, unsubscribe in one click.