CVE-2013-2420

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, 6 Update 43 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 41 and earlier; and OpenJDK 6 and 7; allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to 2D. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to insufficient "validation of images" in share/native/sun/awt/image/awt_ImageRep.c, possibly involving offsets.

10.0

CVSS

Severity: Critical

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 6.09% Top 10%

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Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/cf93d3828aa8
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00013.html	vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952638
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml	vendor advisory
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022796.html	mailing list
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00001.html	vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0758.html	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59167	vdb entry
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Apr/msg00001.html	vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:145	vendor advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107A	third party advisory us government resource
http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=137283787217316&w=2	vendor advisory
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1455.html	vendor advisory
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03898880	vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.html	vendor advisory
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0124
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00017.html	vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19354	vdb entry signature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19704	vdb entry signature
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161	vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html	vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.html	vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1	vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16597	vdb entry signature
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1456.html	vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00007.html	vendor advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html	vendor advisory
http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00007.html	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2013-2420?: CVE-2013-2420 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2013-2420?: To fix CVE-2013-2420, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2013-2420 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2013-2420 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~6% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.