CVE-2010-0387

high
Published 2010-01-25 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in (1) webservd and (2) the admin server in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string in an "Authorization: Digest" HTTP header.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33553 remote multiple verified
Intevydis ยท 2010-01-21

Sun Java System Web Server 6.1/7.0 - Digest Authentication Remote Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sunjava_system_web_server7.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.