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."
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:27.839Z
Reserved: 2002-10-04T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2002-1185
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Status : Modified
Published: 2002-12-11T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627
Link: CVE-2002-1185
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