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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-2789: Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2007-2789: Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

05/21/2007

Created

07/25/2018

Added

10/30/2017

Modified

10/29/2021

Description

The BMP image parser in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.5.0_11-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.0_01-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_19 and earlier, when running on Unix/Linux systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM hang) via untrusted applets or applications that open arbitrary local files via a crafted BMP file, such as /dev/tty.

Solution(s)

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-emulation-emul-linux-x86-java
gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-java-jrockit-jdk-bin
gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-java-sun-jdk
gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-java-sun-jre-bin

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2007-2789
APPLE-SA-2007-12-14
24004
CVE - 2007-2789
200705-23
200706-08
200709-15
200804-20
OVAL10800
RHSA-2007:0817
RHSA-2007:0829
RHSA-2007:0956
RHSA-2007:1086
RHSA-2008:0100
RHSA-2008:0133
RHSA-2008:0261
SUSE-SA:2007:045
SUSE-SA:2007:056
34320
34654

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