CVE-2002-1444: Google Toolbar

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 13.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Google toolbar 1.1.60, when running on Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash with an exception in oleaut32.dll) via malicious HTML, possibly related to small width and height parameters or an incorrect call to the Google.Search() function.

Affected products

• Google Toolbar: version 1.1.60 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2002-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.