CVE-2012-3422

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2012-07-31
Bugzilla:
840592: CVE-2012-3422 icedtea-web: getvalueforurl uninitialized instance pointer

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The getFirstInTableInstance function in the IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 returns an uninitialized pointer when the instance_to_id_map hash is empty, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, which causes an uninitialized memory location to be read.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3422 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (icedtea-web) RHSA-2012:1132 2012-07-31

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Chamal De Silva for reporting this issue.

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