CVE-2007-0243
Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which…
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Description
Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which triggers memory corruption.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 11.34% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- sun/jdk · sun/jre · sun/sdk
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/242
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/32834
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23757
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24189
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24202
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24468
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24993
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25283
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26049
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26119
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26645
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28115
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-08.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2158
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017520
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102760-1Patch
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-07.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/388289US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0166.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0167.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457159/100/0/threaded
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.