CVE-2002-1185

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."

Scoring

CVSS base score
1.17
EPSS probability
29.20%
Published
2004-09-01
Last modified
2026-03-16

Affected products

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