CVE-2012-3423
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 does not properly handle NPVariant NPStrings without NUL terminators, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), obtain sensitive information from memory, or execute arbitrary code via a crafted Java applet.
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.3-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.3-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.3-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.3-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.3-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | icedtea-web | {"endIncluding":"1.2"} | |
| redhat | icedtea-web | 1.0 | |
| redhat | icedtea-web | 1.1 | |
References
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d65bd94e0ba9
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d7375e2a9076
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html
- 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/2013-05/msg00032.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50089
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841345
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3423
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.