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Netscape 4.77 - Composer Font Face Field Buffer Overflow

🗓️ 13 Jun 2002 00:00:00Reported by S[h]iffType 
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Buffer overflow vulnerability in Netscape Composer allows memory corruption on Linux platforms.

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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5010/info

Netscape is a freely available web browser distributed by Netscape Communications, and available for various platforms. This vulnerability is known to affect those installations on the Linux platform.

A buffer overflow has been reported in the Composer function of Netscape. When an HTML page with a Font Face field of arbitrary length is edited using Netscape Composer, a memory corruption bug may occur that could allow the overwriting of process memory, and execution of attacker supplied code. 

<html>
<body>

<font face="X">Hola!</font>

</body>
</html>

where X is indicative of 191 or more characters.

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