CVE-2007-0243

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

Sun Jdk: through 1.5.0; 1.5.0-update3, 1.5.0-update4, 1.5.0-update5, 1.5.0-update7, 1.5.0-update8
Sun Jre: through 1.3.1; 1.3.1-update16, 1.4.2_1, 1.4.2_2, 1.4.2_3, 1.4.2_4, 1.4.2_5 (+14)
Sun Sdk: 1.3.1_01, 1.3.1_01a, 1.3.1_16, 1.3.1_18, 1.4.2, 1.4.2_03 (+4)

References

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/242
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://osvdb.org/32834
http://secunia.com/advisories/23757
http://secunia.com/advisories/24189
http://secunia.com/advisories/24202
http://secunia.com/advisories/24468
http://secunia.com/advisories/24993
http://secunia.com/advisories/25283
http://secunia.com/advisories/26049

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