Vulnerability CVE-2002-2248
Published: 2002-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Netscape -> Communicator 

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