CVE-2002-1308: Mozilla

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Netscape and Mozilla allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a jar: URL that references a malformed .jar file, which overflows a buffer during decompression.

Affected products

• Mozilla Mozilla: version 0.9.6 only; version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.8 only; version 0.9.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; …
• Netscape Navigator: version 6.2 only; version 6.2.1 only; version 6.2.2 only; version 6.2.3 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2002-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.