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CVE-2012-4540

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-11-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the invoke function in IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc in IcedTea-Web 1.1.x before 1.1.7, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted webpage that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an error message and a "triggering event attached to applet." NOTE: the 1.4.x versions were originally associated with CVE-2013-4349, but that entry has been MERGED with this one.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• icedtea-web: 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+4)

References

• http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/file/d759ec560073/NEWS
• http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/596a718be03f
• http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.3/rev/e7970f3da5fe
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00065.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00071.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00073.html
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-November/020775.html
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-September/024750.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1434.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51206

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