PT-2008-1401 · Sun+1 · Sun Jre 5.0+1

Martin Oneal · Published 2008-01-09 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-0012

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Sun JRE 5.0 versions prior to update 14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an Internet Explorer crash, by utilizing an object tag with an encoded applet and an undefined name attribute. This triggers a NULL pointer dereference in jpiexp32.dll when the applet is decoded and passed to the JVM.

Recommendations For Sun JRE 5.0 versions prior to update 14, update to a version that includes update 14 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-0012

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Sun Jre 5.0

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0012 · Security Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3527 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0012 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/485942/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39549 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/27185 · Note