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Vulnerability record · CVE-2000-0655 · published 25 July 2000

CVE-2000-0655: Mozilla vulnerability

Mozilla · Mozilla

Netscape Communicator 4.73 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a JPEG image containing a comment with an illegal field length of 1.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 13% · top 3.9%
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
13%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
18References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Netscape Communicator 4.73 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a JPEG image containing a comment with an illegal field length of 1.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.co ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.co ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2000-0655), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.