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title: "CVE-2007-0243\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-0243

Publication date 17 January 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Negligible**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-0243?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [kees](https://launchpad.net/~kees)

Java issue

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0243)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0243)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-0243)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0243)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0243>