CVE-2002-1766 (GCVE-0-2002-1766)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-06-21 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:34
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276876 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5010 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2002-06-13 00:00
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