CVE-2007-2789

no score yetEPSS 3.5%

The BMP image parser in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.5.0_11-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.0_01-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_19 and earlier, when running on Unix/Linux systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM hang) via untrusted applets or applications that open arbitrary local files via a crafted BMP file, such as /dev/tty.

EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2007-05-22
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sun:jdk
sun:jre
sun:sdk

References

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25295

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