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CVE-2003-0469 (GCVE-0-2003-0469)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-06-28 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:58
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the HTML Converter (HTML32.cnv) on various Windows operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via cut-and-paste operation, as demonstrated in Internet Explorer 5.0 using a long "align" argument in an HR tag.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-14.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8016 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/823260 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
Date Public
2003-06-23 00:00
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