cve-2007-0243
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-17 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:12
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/242
cve@mitre.orghttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
cve@mitre.orghttp://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/32834
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23757
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24189
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24202
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24468
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24993
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/25283
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/26049
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/26119
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/26645
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27203
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/28115
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-08.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/2158
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017520
cve@mitre.orghttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102760-1Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-07.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/388289US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0166.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0167.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457159/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457638/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22085
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-022A.htmlUS Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0211
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0936
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1814
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-005.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31537
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11073
Impacted products
n/an/a
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