Vulnerability CVE-2012-3423


Published: 2012-08-07   Modified: 2012-08-08

Description:
The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 does not properly handle NPVariant NPStrings without NUL terminators, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), obtain sensitive information from memory, or execute arbitrary code via a crafted Java applet.

Type:

CWE-119

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

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Icedtea-web 

 References:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d7375e2a9076
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d65bd94e0ba9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841345
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/50089
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518

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