Buffer overflow in Red Hat Icedtea-Web
CVE-2012-3423
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.062 (93.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.062 · newest: 0.062 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat Icedtea-Web — versions 1.0, 1.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml (vendor-advisory)
- icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
- icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d65bd94e0ba9 (Exploit, Patch)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html (vendor-advisory)