Vulnerability Report

CVE-2000-0655

Title: Netscape Communicator JPEG comment illegal length overflow

Remote code execution

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2000-0655

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 25, 2000

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

15.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2000-0655: 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.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 1

mozilla 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503 http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.com http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503 http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.com http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2000-0655 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20098

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 25, 2000 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.