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Vulnerability details: VCID-94ug-s768-aaan
Vulnerability ID VCID-94ug-s768-aaan
Aliases CVE-2012-4540
Summary Off-by-one error in the invoke function in IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc in IcedTea-Web 1.1.x before 1.1.7, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted webpage that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an error message and a "triggering event attached to applet." NOTE: the 1.4.x versions were originally associated with CVE-2013-4349, but that entry has been MERGED with this one.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-189 Numeric Errors
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
rhas Critical https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1434
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generic_textual HIGH http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4540
Reference id Reference type URL
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.1/file/d759ec560073/NEWS
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.2/rev/596a718be03f
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea-web-1.3/rev/e7970f3da5fe
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00065.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00071.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00073.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-November/020775.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-September/024750.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1434.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2012-4540.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2012-4540
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007960
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869040
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4540
http://secunia.com/advisories/51206
http://secunia.com/advisories/51220
http://secunia.com/advisories/51374
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79894
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2768
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:171
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56434
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62426
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027738
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1625-1
692608 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692608
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CVE-2012-4540 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4540
GLSA-201406-32 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201406-32
RHSA-2012:1434 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1434
USN-1625-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1625-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4540
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.77703
EPSS Score 0.01189
Published At May 15, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
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