CVE-2003-1572

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Sun Java Media Framework (JMF) 2.1.1 through 2.1.1c allows unsigned applets to cause a denial of service (JVM crash) and read or write unauthorized memory locations via the ReadEnv class, as demonstrated by reading environment variables using modified .data and .size fields.

Affected products

Sun Jmf: 2.1.1, 2.1.1a, 2.1.1b, 2.1.1c

References

http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2003/06/msg00219.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1006777
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F54760
http://www.illegalaccess.org/java/jmf.php
http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2003/06/msg00219.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1006777
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F54760
http://www.illegalaccess.org/java/jmf.php

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