CVE-2012-3423

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

07/08/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:icedtea-web::::::::		1.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:icedtea-web:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:icedtea-web:1.1:::::::*

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CVE-2012-3423

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools