CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1185

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-12-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-12-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 configurations

• microsoft ie 6.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References