CVE-2013-2436

Published: 17 April 2013

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1488 and CVE-2013-2426. 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 incorrect "type checks" and "method handle binding" involving Wrapper.convert.

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

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2436
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1806-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian