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CVE-2009-3873

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
05/11/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The JPEG Image Writer in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22, JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_24 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted image file, related to a "quantization problem," aka Bug Id 6862968.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_13:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_14:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_15:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_16:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_17:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_18:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_19:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_20:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_21:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sun:jdk:1.5.0:update_3:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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