CVE-2002-2308 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Netscape Communicator browsers by serving a webpage with a recursive blank META refresh tag.
- 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-2002-2308?
CVE-2002-2308 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Oct 2007. 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
Netscape Communicator 6.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service in client browsers via a webpage containing a recursive META refresh tag where the content tag is blank and the URL tag references itself.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-2308?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Netscape Communicator.
How do I fix CVE-2002-2308?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-2308 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-2002-2308 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-2308 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-1999-1189 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2001-0596 Cross-site scripting in n/a
- CVE-1999-1357 Cross-site scripting in n/a
- CVE-2000-1187 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c8gx-mmh9-vcg4.