CVE-2007-0243
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 11.6%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which triggers memory corruption.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 11.6% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0245)
- Published
- January 17, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0245 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sun / jdk
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- sun / jre
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- sun / sdk
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- sun / sdk
References
- http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/242
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/32834
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23757
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24189
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24202
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24468
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24993
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25283
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26049
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26119
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26645
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28115
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-08.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2158
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017520
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102760-1(Patch)
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html
- http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-07.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/388289(US Government Resource)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0166.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0167.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457159/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457638/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22085
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-022A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0211
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0936
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1814
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-005.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31537
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11073
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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