CVE-2003-1301

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.x before 1.4.2_11 and 1.5.x before 1.5.0_06, and as used in multiple web browsers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via deeply nested object arrays, which are not properly handled by the garbage collector and trigger invalid memory accesses.

Affected products

Sun Jre: 1.4.2, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4, 1.4.2_5 (+11)

References

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4396719
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4944300
http://www.illegalaccess.org/exploit/ObjectStackOverflow.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434705/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18058
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4396719
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4944300
http://www.illegalaccess.org/exploit/ObjectStackOverflow.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434705/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18058

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