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Java CPU April 2013 Java Runtime Environment 2D vulnerability (CVE-2013-2420)

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Java CPU April 2013 Java Runtime Environment 2D vulnerability (CVE-2013-2420)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/16/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/16/2013
Modified
07/21/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • jre-upgrade-latest

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