PT-2002-2960 · Netscape · Netscape

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2002-2248

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Netscape version 4.0

Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the sun.awt.windows.WDefaultFontCharset Java class implementation. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an applet that calls the WDefaultFontCharset constructor with a long string and invokes the canConvert method.

Recommendations: For Netscape version 4.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-2248

Affected Products

Netscape

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-2248 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103834439321292&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10706 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/6256 · Note