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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2012-0547 EUVD-2012-0579GHSA-mpj2-6qj6-74jr

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier, and 6 Update 34 and ear…

Published Aug 30, 2012 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by oracle

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier, and 6 Update 34 and earlier, has no impact and remote attack vectors involving AWT and "a security-in-depth issue that is not directly exploitable but which can be used to aggravate security vulnerabilities that can be directly exploited." NOTE: this identifier was assigned by the Oracle CNA, but CVE is not intended to cover defense-in-depth issues that are only exposed by the presence of other vulnerabilities. NOTE: Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is related to "toolkit internals references."

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 6 java-1.6.0-ibm +6 1:1.6.0.12.0-1jpp.1.el6_3 RHSA-2012:1466
RHEL 6 java-1.6.0-openjdk +4 1:1.6.0.0-1.49.1.11.4.el6_3 RHSA-2012:1221
RHEL 6 java-1.6.0-sun +5 1:1.6.0.37-1jpp.1.el6_3 RHSA-2012:1392
RHEL 6 java-1.7.0-ibm +5 1:1.7.0.2.0-1jpp.3.el6_3 RHSA-2012:1289
RHEL 6 java-1.7.0-openjdk +4 1:1.7.0.5-2.2.1.el6_3.3 RHSA-2012:1223
RHEL 6 java-1.7.0-oracle +4 1:1.7.0.7-1jpp.5.el6_3 RHSA-2012:1225
RHEL 5 java-1.6.0-ibm +7 1:1.6.0.12.0-1jpp.1.el5_8 RHSA-2012:1466
RHEL 5 java-1.6.0-openjdk +4 1:1.6.0.0-1.28.1.10.9.el5_8 RHSA-2012:1222
RHEL 5 java-1.6.0-sun +5 1:1.6.0.37-1jpp.1.el5_8 RHSA-2012:1392
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Network Satellite 5 java-1.6.0-ibm +1 1:1.6.0.14.0-1jpp.1.el5_9 RHSA-2013:1456, RHSA-2013:1455

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed java-1_7_0-openjdk 1.7.0.121-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10534-1

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Advisories 10

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