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CVE-2002-1308

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Netscape and Mozilla allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a jar: URL that references a malformed .jar file, which overflows a buffer during decompression.

Affected products

• Mozilla: 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 1.0, 1.0.1 (+1)
• Netscape Navigator: 6.2, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 7.0

References

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157646
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103730181813075&w=2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-162.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-163.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6185
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10636
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157646
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103730181813075&w=2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-162.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-163.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6185
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10636

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