CVE-2012-3422
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 3.1%EU EUVD
The getFirstInTableInstance function in the IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.1 returns an uninitialized pointer when the instance_to_id_map hash is empty, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page, which causes an uninitialized memory location to be read.
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
- 3.1% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3392)
- Published
- August 7, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3392 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea-web
- redhat / icedtea-web
References
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/file/icedtea-web-1.2.1/NEWS
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00032.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00101.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1132.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50089(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1521-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840592
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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