CVE-2012-3422

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The getFirstInTableInstance function in the IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 returns an uninitialized pointer when the instance_to_id_map hash is empty, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, which causes an uninitialized memory location to be read.

Affected products

icedtea-web: through 1.2; 1.0, 1.1

References

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50089
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml

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