PT-2002-1843 · Microsoft · Windows+2

Published 2002-08-12 · Updated 2019-04-30 · CVE-2002-0823

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows (affected versions not specified)

Description: A buffer overflow issue exists in Winhlp32.exe, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This occurs when an HTML document calls the HTML Help ActiveX control (HHCtrl.ocx) with a long pathname in the Item parameter.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-0823

Affected Products

Hhctrl.Ocx

Windows

Winhlp32.Exe

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/21485 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0823 · Security Note
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3Bq293338 · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102822806329440&w=2 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/2991 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/4857 · Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/9746.php · Note