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CVE-2013-1493: The color management (CMM) functionality in the 2D component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 15 and earlier, 6…

CVE-2013-1493 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and NVD lists 4 affected products, including Oracle JRE. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

The color management (CMM) functionality in the 2D component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 15 and earlier, 6 Update 41 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 40 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (crash) via an image with crafted raster parameters, which triggers (1) an out-of-bounds read or (2) memory corruption in the JVM, as exploited in the wild in February 2013.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

  • Oracle JRE: up to and including 1.7.0; 1.7.0; 1.7.0 update1; 1.7.0 update10; 1.7.0 update11; 1.7.0 update13; 1.7.0 update2; 1.7.0 update3; 1.7.0 update4; 1.7.0 update5; 1.7.0 update6; 1.7.0 update7
  • Sun JRE: 1.5.0; 1.5.0 update1; 1.5.0 update10; 1.5.0 update11; 1.5.0 update12; 1.5.0 update13; 1.5.0 update14; 1.5.0 update15; 1.5.0 update16; 1.5.0 update17; 1.5.0 update18; 1.5.0 update19
  • Oracle JDK: up to and including 1.6.0; 1.6.0 update22; 1.6.0 update23; 1.6.0 update24; 1.6.0 update25; 1.6.0 update26; 1.6.0 update27; 1.6.0 update29; 1.6.0 update30; 1.6.0 update31; 1.6.0 update32; 1.6.0 update33
  • Sun JDK: 1.6.0; 1.6.0 update_10; 1.6.0 update_11; 1.6.0 update_12; 1.6.0 update_13; 1.6.0 update_14; 1.6.0 update_15; 1.6.0 update_16; 1.6.0 update_17; 1.6.0 update_18; 1.6.0 update_19; 1.6.0 update_20

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