security flaw
Published Oct 13, 2000
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 12.72%
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.
Affected products
No data.
- m15
- 4.0
- 4.05
- 4.5
- 4.5_beta
- 4.06
- 4.6
- 4.07
- 4.7
- 4.08
- 4.51
- 4.61
- 4.72
- 4.73
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue was fixed in the following products: - Red Hat Linux 5.2 - RHSA-2000:046 (2000-07-31) - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - RHSA-2000:046 (2000-07-31) - Red Hat Linux 6.1 - RHSA-2000:046 (2000-07-31) - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:046 (2000-07-31)
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 12.72% (0.12717) | 96.15th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 12.72% (0.12717) | 95.74th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 15.25% (0.15249) | 94.04th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 16.53% (0.16528) | 91.53th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 15.25% (0.15249) | 94.10th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.34% (0.01345) | 86.69th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 1.34% (0.01345) | 85.68th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.12% (0.01116) | 82.32th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 94.86th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 94.44th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 88.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (13)
- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-00:39.netscape.asc vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSD
- ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-011.txt.asc vendor-advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0456.html mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-08/0116.html mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_announce_60.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-046.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1503 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/archive.pike%3Flist%3D1%26msg%3D200007242356.DAA01274%40false.com mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- http://www.turbolinux.com/pipermail/tl-security-announce/2000-August/000016.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBO
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2000-0655 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1616498 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0655
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-0655
Change history (0)
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