Published: 12/08/2002 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 755

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

Buffer overflow in Winhlp32.exe allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document that calls the HTML Help ActiveX control (HHCtrl.ocx) with a long pathname in the Item parameter.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4857/info HTML Help ActiveX control (Hhctrlocx) ships as part of Microsoft HTML Help and is designed to work with Internet Explorer to provide functionality for help systems A remotely exploitable issue has been reported in the WinHlp facility The software fails to perform sufficient boundary checks of ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9746.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4857 http://www.osvdb.org/2991 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102822806329440&w=2 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3Bq293338 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21485/

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