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CVSSv2

CVE-2012-3174

Published: 14/01/2013 Updated: 21/02/2014
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 890
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java 7 before Update 11 allows remote malicious users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0422. NOTE: some parties have mapped CVE-2012-3174 to an issue involving recursive use of the Reflection API, but that issue is already covered as part of CVE-2013-0422. This identifier is for a different vulnerability whose details are not public as of 20130114.

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Vendor Advisories

OpenJDK 7 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted Java applet ...
Synopsis Critical: java-170-oracle security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic Updated java-170-oracle packages that fix two security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 SupplementaryThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical ...
Synopsis Important: java-170-openjdk security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated java-170-openjdk packages that fix two security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant security ...
Synopsis Critical: java-170-ibm security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic Updated java-170-ibm packages that fix several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 SupplementaryThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalse ...
Two improper permission check issues were discovered in the reflection API in OpenJDK An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions ...

Recent Articles

VXers exploit users' confusion over Java to punt fake update
The Register • John Leyden • 18 Jan 2013

Cheers, dears, I'll just pop through that backdoor...

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