VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-2420

critical
Published 2013-04-17 · 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
10.0

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.

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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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oraclejre{"endIncluding":"1.7.0"}
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk{"endIncluding":"1.7.0"}
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
sunjre1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
sunjdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.5.0
sunjre1.5.0
oracle oraclejdk1.5.0
sunjdk1.5.0

References

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

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