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CVE-2012-4540Not scoredCWE-189

CVE-2012-4540: Redhat Icedtea-Web vulnerability

Redhat · Icedtea-Web

Vendor fix available · Affected: Redhat Icedtea-Web · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

3.4%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
89th percentile
050100

Higher than 89% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

Off-by-one error in the invoke function in IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc in IcedTea-Web 1.1.x before 1.1.7, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted webpage that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an error message and a "triggering event attached to applet." NOTE: the 1.4.x versions were originally associated with CVE-2013-4349, but that entry has been MERGED with this one.

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Exploitation
Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public check
No public nuclei template
Vendor
Redhat
Published
November 2012

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