Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-1766 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Netscape Communicator 4.77

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
netscape
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2002-12-31
Updated: 2017-07-11

Summary

Buffer overflow in Composer in Netscape 4.77 allows local users to overwrite process memory and execute arbitrary code via a font tag with a long face attribute.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Netscape
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionNetscape 4.77 Composer Font Face Field Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-2002-1766. Dos exploits for multiple platform
idEDB-ID:21544
last seen2016-02-02
modified2002-06-13
published2002-06-13
reporterS[h]iff
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/21544/
titleNetscape 4.77 Composer Font Face Field Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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