CVE-2000-0655

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2000-07-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Netscape Communicator 4.73 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a JPEG image containing a comment with an illegal field length of 1.

Affected products

Mozilla: m15
Netscape Communicator: 4.0, 4.05, 4.5, 4.5_beta, 4.06, 4.6 (+7)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.com
http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html

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