CVE-2012-3423

Summary

CVECVE-2012-3423
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-08-07 21:55:00 UTC
Updated2014-10-04 04:53:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Icedtea-web 1.0 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea-web 1.1 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea-web 1.0 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea-web 1.1 All All All
Application Redhat Icedtea-web All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-1521-1: IcedTea-Web vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Bug 841345 – CVE-2012-3423 icedtea-web: incorrect handling of not 0-terminated strings MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
release/icedtea-web-1.2: d65bd94e0ba9 CONFIRM icedtea.classpath.org Exploit, Patch
release/icedtea-web-1.2: d7375e2a9076 CONFIRM icedtea.classpath.org Exploit, Patch
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0979-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Security Alerts - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:0981-1: important: icedtea-web: Upd SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:0851-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Bug 863 – Error passing strings to applet methods in Chromium CONFIRM icedtea.classpath.org Vendor Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2013:0966-1: moderate: Package icedtea-web was updated to ve SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- IcedTea JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
release/icedtea-web-1.2: fae550dbc884 NEWS CONFIRM icedtea.classpath.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0826-1: moderate: Package icedtea-web was updated to ve SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1174-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:0893-1: moderate: Package icedtea-web was updated to ve SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Bug 518 – NPString.utf8characters not guaranteed to be nul-terminated CONFIRM icedtea.classpath.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:0982-1: important: update for icedt SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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