National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0469
Original release date:08/07/2003
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the HTML Converter (HTML32.cnv) on various Windows operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via cut-and-paste operation, as demonstrated in Internet Explorer 5.0 using a long "align" argument in an HR tag.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#823260
Name: VU#823260
CERT/CC Advisory: CA-2003-14
Name: CA-2003-14
External Source: MS
Name: MS03-023
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20030622 Internet Explorer >=5.0 : Buffer overflow
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20030625 Re: Internet Explorer >=5.0 : Buffer overflow
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20030701 PoC for Internet Explorer >=5.0 buffer overflow (trivial exploit for hard case).
External Source: BID
Name: 8016
