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CVE-2013-2420

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, 6 Update 43 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 41 and earlier; and OpenJDK 6 and 7; allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to 2D. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to insufficient "validation of images" in share/native/sun/awt/image/awt_ImageRep.c, possibly involving offsets.

Affected products

• Oracle Java SE: through 1.7.0; through 1.6.0; through 1.5.0; 1.7.0, 1.7.0-update1, 1.7.0-update10, 1.7.0-update11, 1.7.0-update13, 1.7.0-update15 (+27)
• Oracle Java SE: through 1.7.0; through 1.6.0; through 1.5.0; 1.7.0, 1.7.0-update1, 1.7.0-update10, 1.7.0-update11, 1.7.0-update13, 1.7.0-update15 (+27)
• Sun Jdk: 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 (+49)
• Sun Jre: 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 (+47)

References

• http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/
• http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03898880
• http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/cf93d3828aa8
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Apr/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00017.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022796.html

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