Netscape Composer Font Face field buffer overflow
| netscape-composer-font-bo (9355) |  High Risk |
Description:
Composer in Netscape Communicator is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, if the Font Face field in an HTML page contains 191 bytes or more. This could allow a remote attacker to overwrite process memory and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Jun 13 2002 - 06:31:03 CDT: Microsoft FrontPage vs Composer Netscape....
- BID-5010: Netscape Composer Font Face Field Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-1766: Buffer overflow in Composer in Netscape 4.77 allows local users to overwrite process memory and execute arbitrary code via a font tag with a long face attribute.
Platforms Affected:
- Netscape Communicator 4.77
Reported:
Jun 13, 2002
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