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CVE-2010-0838

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-04-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java 2D component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0, Update, and 23 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the March 2010 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a reliable researcher that this is a stack-based buffer overflow using an untrusted size value in the readMabCurveData function in the CMM module in the JVM.

Affected products

• Sun Jdk: through 1.6.0; through 1.5.0; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13, 1.6.0-update_14 (+33)
• Sun Jre: through 1.6.0; through 1.5.0; 1.6.0, 1.6.0-update_1, 1.6.0-update_10, 1.6.0-update_11, 1.6.0-update_12, 1.6.0-update_13 (+32)

References

• http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127557596201693&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254866602253&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39292
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39317
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39659
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39819
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40545

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