CVE-2013-1927

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.3 and 1.3.x before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that validates as both a GIF and a Java JAR file, aka "GIFAR."

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
Opensuse: 12.2
icedtea-web: through 1.2.2; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+13)

References

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.3/NEWS
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/cb58b31c450e
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.3/rev/19f5282f53e8
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/2013-04/msg00106.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00003.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/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022790.html

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