National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2789

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: BID

Name: 24004

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24004

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25295

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25295

External Source: MISC

Name: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-004.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-004.html

External Source: XF

Name: sun-java-virtual-machine-dos(34654)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34654

External Source: XF

Name: sunjava-bmp-dos(34320)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34320

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-4224

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3009

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3009

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-1836

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1836

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018182

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018182

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0261

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0133

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0133.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0100

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0100.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:1086

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1086.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0956

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0829

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0829.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0817

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0817.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2007:056

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_56_ibmjava.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2007:045

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200806-11

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200804-20

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200709-15

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-15.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200705-23

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-23.xml

External Source: VIM

Name: 20070711 Sun JDK Confusion

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-July/001708.html

External Source: VIM

Name: 20070704 [theall at tenablesecurity.com: Sun JDK Confusion] (fwd)

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-July/001697.html

External Source: VIM

Name: 20070703 Sun JDK Confusion

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-July/001696.html

External Source: VIM

Name: 20071218 Sun JDK Confusion Revisited

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-December/001862.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html

Hyperlink:http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html

Hyperlink:http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 200856

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200856-1

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 102934

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102934-1

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200804-28

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200706-08

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-08.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30805

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30805

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30780

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30780

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29858

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29858

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29340

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29340

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28115

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28115

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28056

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28056

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27266

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27266

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27203

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27203

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26933

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26933

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26645

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26645

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26631

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26631

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26369

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26369

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26311

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26311

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26119

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26119

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26049

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26049

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25832

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25832

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25474

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25474

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10800

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10800

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-12-14

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177

External Source: BEA

Name: BEA07-177.00

Hyperlink:http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10800

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10800