CVE-2002-1444 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer via malicious HTML when using the Google Toolbar, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2002-1444?
CVE-2002-1444 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 18 Mar 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Google toolbar 1.1.60, when running on Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash with an exception in oleaut32.dll) via malicious HTML, possibly related to small width and height parameters or an incorrect call to the Google.Search() function.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1444?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Google Toolbar, Microsoft Internet Explorer.
How do I fix CVE-2002-1444?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1444 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2002-1444 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-1444 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v3vx-64rr-w62w.