CVE-2002-1766 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Netscape Communicator, specifically within the Composer component of Netscape 4.77. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite process memory and execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially crafted font tag with an excessively long "face" attribute. With a CVSS score of 4.6, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.77CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netscape:communicator:4.77:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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