Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6.0 PNG Image heap-based overflow
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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6.0 (Web Browser). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component PNG Image Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:
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."
The weakness was published 12/11/2002 by eEye Digital Security with eEye Digital Security as MS02-066 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). It is possible to read the advisory at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-1185. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
Applying the patch MS02-066 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (10809). Similar entries are available at 19108, 19196, 19197 and 19198.
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Class: Heap-based overflowCWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Patch: MS02-066
Timeline
11/20/2002 🔍11/21/2002 🔍
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Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: MS02-066
Researcher: eEye Digital Security
Organization: eEye Digital Security
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2002-1185 (🔍)
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X-Force: 10809
Vulnerability Center: 3090 - [MS02-066] Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 DoS, Medium
SecurityFocus: 6216 - Microsoft Internet Explorer PNG Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Entry
Created: 07/31/2014 16:53Updated: 04/07/2017 12:07
Changes: 07/31/2014 16:53 (66), 04/07/2017 12:07 (1)
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