CVE-2012-3423

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2012-07-31
Bugzilla:
841345: CVE-2012-3423 icedtea-web: incorrect handling of not 0-terminated strings

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 does not properly handle NPVariant NPStrings without NUL terminators, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), obtain sensitive information from memory, or execute arbitrary code via a crafted Java applet.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3423 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
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

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