CVE-2007-0012

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Sun JRE 5.0 before update 14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) via an object tag with an encoded applet and an undefined name attribute, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference in jpiexp32.dll when the applet is decoded and passed to the JVM.

Affected products

Sun Jre: through 1.5.0

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3527
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485942/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27185
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39549
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3527
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485942/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27185
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39549

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