Vulnerability CVE-2007-0243

Vulnerability CVE-2007-0243

Published: 2007-01-17 Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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	Topic	Author	Date
High	Sun Microsystems Java GIF File Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability	an anonymous res...	19.01.2007

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10	6.4/10	8.6/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
SUN -> JDK
SUN -> JRE
SUN -> SDK

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://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=1-26-102760-1

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/388289

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457638/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22085

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-022A.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0211

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0936

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1814

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-005.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31537

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11073

Vulnerability 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 triggers memory corruption.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

High

Sun Microsystems Java GIF File Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability

CWE-119

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

6.8/10

6.4/10

8.6/10

Remote

Medium

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: