CVE-2012-3423

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.

🔗 References (36)

• secalert@redhathttp://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518
• secalert@redhathttp://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863
• secalert@redhathttp://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
• secalert@redhathttp://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d65bd94e0ba9
• secalert@redhathttp://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d7375e2a9076
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html
• secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/50089