Published: 11/11/2012 Updated: 30/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Off-by-one error in the invoke function in IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc in IcedTea-Web 1.1.x prior to 1.1.7, 1.2.x prior to 1.2.2, 1.3.x prior to 1.3.1, and 1.4.x prior to 1.4.1 allows remote malicious users to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted webpage that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an error message and a "triggering event attached to applet." NOTE: the 1.4.x versions were originally associated with CVE-2013-4349, but that entry has been MERGED with this one.

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redhat icedtea-web 1.1.6
redhat icedtea-web 1.1.5
redhat icedtea-web 1.2.1
redhat icedtea-web 1.1
redhat icedtea-web 1.2
redhat icedtea-web 1.3
redhat icedtea-web 1.1.4
redhat icedtea-web 1.1.3

Synopsis Critical: icedtea-web security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic Updated icedtea-web packages that fix one security issue are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact A Common Vulnera ...

Debian Bug report logs - #692608 [CVE-2012-4540] icedtea-web: buffer overflow in IcedTeaScriptableJavaObject::invoke Package: icedtea-web; Maintainer for icedtea-web is Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Luciano Bello <luciano@debianorg> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 21:03:0 ...

The Icedtea-Web plugin could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted web page ...

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in icedtea-web, a web browser plugin for running applets written in the Java programming language If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker could cause the plugin to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user invoking the program This problem was initially d ...

CWE-189 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56434 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1434.html http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.3/rev/e7970f3da5fe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869040 http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/file/d759ec560073/NEWS http://secunia.com/advisories/51206 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027738 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:171 http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-November/020775.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1625-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/51220 http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/596a718be03f http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00040.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00065.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51374 http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-September/024750.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007960 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00073.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00071.html http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2768 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62426 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79894 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1434 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1625-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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