CVE-2000-0655 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 12.7% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 12.72% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2000-07-25 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| mozilla | mozilla |
| netscape | communicator |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Netscape Communicator 4.x - JPEG-Comment Heap Overwrite | 2000-07-25 |
References
- 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
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