CVE-2002-2248 (GCVE-0-2002-2248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-14 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:59
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the sun.awt.windows.WDefaultFontCharset Java class implementation in Netscape 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an applet that calls the WDefaultFontCharset constructor with a long string and invokes the canConvert method.
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