Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0593

RCE

Title: Netscape/Mozilla long IRC channel name buffer overflow

RCE/Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0593.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 18, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0593: Buffer overflow in Netscape 6 and Mozilla 1.0 RC1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long channel name in an IRC URI.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 2

mozilla 1

cloudera 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000490 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/270249 http://secunia.com/advisories/8039 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8976.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4637 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000490 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/270249 http://secunia.com/advisories/8039 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8976.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4637

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0593 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 18, 2002 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.