PT-2000-1589 · Netscape · Netscape Communicator

Published 2000-07-25 · Updated 2008-09-10 · CVE-2000-0655

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Netscape Communicator versions 4.73 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a JPEG image containing a comment with an illegal field length of 1.

Recommendations For Netscape Communicator versions 4.73 and earlier, consider updating to a newer version to mitigate the risk, however at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0655

Affected Products

Netscape Communicator

References · 11

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.com · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/20098 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0655 · Security Note
• http://turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html · Note
• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc · Note
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html · Note
• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc · Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1503 · Note