CVE-2002-1881 (GCVE-0-2002-1881)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-06-28 04:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:35
VLAI
Summary
Macromedia Flash Player 4.0 r12 through 6.0.47.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web browser crash) via malformed content in a Flash Shockwave (.SWF) file, as demonstrated by by ROT13 encoding the body of the file but not the headers.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9843.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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