{"id":"CVE-2012-3422","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-3422","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:46:38.898Z","title":"The getFirstInTableInstance function in the IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 returns an uninitialized pointer when the instance_to_id_map hash is empty, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary…","description":"The getFirstInTableInstance function in the IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 returns an uninitialized pointer when the instance_to_id_map hash is empty, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, which causes an uninitialized memory location to be read.","published":"2012-08-07T21:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:43:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["redhat/icedtea-web"],"epss":{"score":0.03119,"percentile":0.87741,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.12%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/50089","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840592","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/50089","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840592","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3422","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}