CVE-2012-1717

low

Published 2012-06-16 · 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

2.1

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 update 4 and earlier, 6 update 32 and earlier, 5 update 35 and earlier, and 1.4.2_37 and earlier allows local users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to printing on Solaris or Linux.

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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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.2	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
11	Affected	—
10	Affected	—

Linux kernel Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
oracle	jre	`{"startIncluding":"1.4.2","endIncluding":"1.4.2_37"}`
oracle	jre	`1.5.0`
oracle	jre	`1.6.0`
oracle	jre	`1.7.0`
oracle	jdk	`{"startIncluding":"1.4.2","endIncluding":"1.4.2_37"}`
oracle	jdk	`1.5.0`
oracle	jdk	`1.6.0`
oracle	jdk	`1.7.0`
redhat	icedtea6	`{"endExcluding":"1.10.8"}`	`1.10.8`
redhat	satellite_with_embedded_oracle	`5.5`

References

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

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