CVE-2010-4471

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-02-15
IAVA:
2011-A-0160
Bugzilla:
676019: CVE-2010-4471 OpenJDK Java2D font-related system property leak (6985453)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 27 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to 2D. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the February 2011 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is related to the exposure of system properties via vectors related to Font.createFont and exception text.

Find out more about CVE-2010-4471 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.6.0-sun) RHSA-2011:0282 2011-02-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0364 2011-03-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0364 2011-03-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0357 2011-03-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.6.0-sun) RHSA-2011:0282 2011-02-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0364 2011-03-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (java-1.6.0-sun) RHSA-2011:0282 2011-02-17
Red Hat Satellite 5.4 (RHEL v.5) (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0880 2011-06-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0357 2011-03-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (java-1.6.0-ibm) RHSA-2011:0357 2011-03-16

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