CVE-2000-0655

N/A Unknown

Published: July 25, 2000 Modified: April 16, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc

Source: cve@mitre.org

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.com

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc