CVE-2012-3423
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 6.2%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.2% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3393)
- 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-2012-3393 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/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=518
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=863(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Exploit, Patch)
- http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/d7375e2a9076(Exploit, Patch)
- 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=841345
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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