CVE-2013-2429

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 ImageIO. 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 "JPEGImageWriter state corruption" when using native code, which triggers memory corruption.

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-2013-2429
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1806-1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1819-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian