CVE-2002-1185

Published Sep 1, 2004 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 21.3% KEV · Not listed
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."

Remediation

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 8, 2024, 3:19 AM
Reserved
Oct 4, 2002, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 11, 2002, 5:00 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 9:58 PM