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CVE-2007-5019

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the Sun Java Web Start ActiveX control in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6.0_X allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a long argument to the dnsResolve (isInstalled.dnsResolve) method.

Affected products

• Sun Java Web Start: all versions
• Sun Jre: 1.6.0_0, 1.6.0_10
• Sun Sdk: 1.3.0

References

• http://osvdb.org/38297
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25734
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36682
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4432
• http://osvdb.org/38297
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25734
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36682
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4432

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