CVE-2007-2789

Vulnerability Description

The BMP image parser in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.5.0_11-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.0_01-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_19 and earlier, when running on Unix/Linux systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM hang) via untrusted applets or applications that open arbitrary local files via a crafted BMP file, such as /dev/tty.

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Related Weaknesses (CWE)

References

• http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248Third Party Advisory
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177Broken Link
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-004.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25295PatchThird Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25474Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25832Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26049Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26119Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26311Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26369Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26631Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26645Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26933Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27203Third Party Advisory