PT-2007-4206 · Oracle · Java Embedding Plugin

Published 2007-05-30 · Updated 2008-11-13 · CVE-2007-2906

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Java Embedding Plugin version 0.9.6.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a browser crash. This is achieved by utilizing a Thread subclass that calls super.run from its run method.

Recommendations For Java Embedding Plugin version 0.9.6.1, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent the denial of service.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2906

Affected Products

Java Embedding Plugin

References · 3

• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=107955&release_id=501861 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2906 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/40925 · Note