Unscored CVE-2002-2248 EUVD-2002-2227GHSA-868j-8v9v-89vg

Buffer overflow in the sun.awt.windows.WDefaultFontCharset Java class implementation in Netscape 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arb…

Published Oct 14, 2007 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

References

netscape-applet-canconvert-bo(10706) vdb-entry
20021126 Netscape 4 Java buffer overflow mailing-list
6256 vdb-entry