Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-2248

Title: Netscape Java WDefaultFontCharset constructor buffer overflow

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-2248.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 31, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-2248: Buffer overflow in the sun.awt.windows.WDefaultFontCharset Java class implementation in Netscape 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an applet that calls the WDefaultFontCharset constructor with a long string and invokes the canConvert method.

Impacted Vendors

netscape 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103834439321292&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6256 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10706 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103834439321292&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6256 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10706

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-2248 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.