CVE-2007-0012 (GCVE-0-2007-0012)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-09 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:03
VLAI
Summary
Sun JRE 5.0 before update 14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) via an object tag with an encoded applet and an undefined name attribute, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference in jpiexp32.dll when the applet is decoded and passed to the JVM.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485942/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27185 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3527 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2008-01-08 00:00
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