CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0693

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-10-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the HTML Help ActiveX Control (hhctrl.ocx) in Microsoft Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, Millennium Edition, NT 4.0, NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows XP allows remote attackers to execute code via (1) a long parameter to the Alink function, or (2) script containing a long argument to the showHelp function.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2000 terminal services • microsoft windows 98 • microsoft windows 98se • microsoft windows me • microsoft windows nt 4.0 • microsoft windows xp

References