CVE-2002-0647: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 23.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in a legacy ActiveX control used to display specially formatted text in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, aka "Buffer Overrun in Legacy Text Formatting ActiveX Control".

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.