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CVE-2002-1185

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2002-12-11 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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."

Affected Platforms

Microsoft IeMicrosoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References