CVE-2012-4540 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-4540

Off-by-one error in the invoke function in IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc in IcedTea-Web...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

opensuse, icedtea-web
Vulnerable Versions:
13.1, 13.2, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3

Timeline

Official Publish: November 11th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.