Buffer overflow in Sun Jdk

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.113 (95.8th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2007-0243: held from 0.113 to 0.113.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.113 · newest: 0.113 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Sun Jdk — versions 1.5.0
  • Sun Jre — versions 1.3.1, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2
  • Sun Sdk — versions 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a, 1.3.1_16

Weakness classification (CWE)

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