CVE-2013-2420

Published: 17 April 2013

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.

Status

Notes

in lucid+, NetX and the plugin moved to the icedtea-web package

sun-java6 is not redistributable, no longer in the archive and
no longer tracked
sun-java5 is EOL upstream and no longer tracked
as of 2013-04-19, IcedTea has not released 2.3.9 or 1.12.5 to fix
this issue

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2420
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1806-1
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1819-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian