CVE-2002-1185

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 21.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0.1, 5.0.1-sp1, 5.0.1-sp2, 5.5, 5.5-sp1, 5.5-sp2 (+1)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6216
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A393
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A542
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0105.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103970996205091&w=2
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20021211.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10662.php

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