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CVE-2000-06551 exploit

Netscape Communicator 4.73 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a JPEG image…

Published 26 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.0
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
12.7%
percentile 96%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Netscape Communicator 4.73 and earlier 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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

12.72% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-20098 Netscape Communicator 4.x - JPEG-Comment Heap Overwrite · dos · 2000-07-25

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

  • redhat.com /support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/1503 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • turbolinux.com /pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_TURBO, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false. · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • novell.com /linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE, x_transferred
  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • archives.neohapsis.com /archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred

Sources

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