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.
- EPSS
- 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- redhat:icedtea-web
References
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d65bd94e0ba9
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d7375e2a9076