CVE-2009-3879

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the (1) X11 and (2) Win32GraphicsDevice subsystems in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to failure to clone arrays that are returned by the getConfigurations function, aka Bug Id 6822057.

Affected products

Sun Jre: through 1.5.0; through 1.6.0; 1.5.0-update_1, 1.5.0-update_11, 1.5.0-update_12, 1.5.0-update_13, 1.5.0-update_14, 1.5.0-update_15 (+29)
Sun Openjdk: all versions

References

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530297
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7545
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9568
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml

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