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CVE-2006-6731

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 7 and earlier, Java System Development Kit (SDK) and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier 1.4.x versions, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allow attackers to develop Java applets that read, write, or execute local files, possibly related to (1) integer overflows in the Java_sun_awt_image_ImagingLib_convolveBI, awt_parseRaster, and awt_parseColorModel functions; (2) a stack overflow in the Java_sun_awt_image_ImagingLib_lookupByteRaster function; and (3) improper handling of certain negative values in the Java_sun_font_SunLayoutEngine_nativeLayout function. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: 1.5.0, 1.5.0-update1, 1.5.0-update2, 1.5.0-update3, 1.5.0-update4, 1.5.0-update5 (+2)
• Sun Jre: 1.3.1, 1.3.1_2, 1.3.1_03, 1.3.1_04, 1.3.1_05, 1.3.1_06 (+33)
• Sun Sdk: 1.3.1, 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a, 1.3.1_02, 1.3.1_03, 1.3.1_04 (+27)

References

• http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/243
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0003.html
• http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-008.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23445
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23650
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23835
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24099
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24189
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24468

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