National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-2061
Original release date:12/31/2002
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in Netscape 6.2.3 and Mozilla 1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash client browsers and execute arbitrary code via a PNG image with large width and height values and an 8-bit or 16-bit alpha channel.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Mozilla as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.1/security-fixes-1.0.1.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: links-png-image-bo(9287)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157202
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2002:074