VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0838

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

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java 2D component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0, Update, and 23 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the March 2010 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a reliable researcher that this is a stack-based buffer overflow using an untrusted size value in the readMabCurveData function in the CMM module in the JVM.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-15056 remote windows verified
Abysssec · 2010-09-20

Java 6.19 CMM readMabCurveData - Remote Stack Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sunjre{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
sunjre1.6.0
sunjdk{"endIncluding":"1.6.0"}
sunjdk1.6.0
sunjdk1.5.0
sunjre1.5.0

References

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

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