CVE-2006-6731 Information

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 7 and earlier Java System Development Kit (SDK) and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier 1.4.x versions and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allow attackers to develop Java applets that read write or execute local files possibly related to (1) integer overflows in the Java_sun_awt_image_ImagingLib_convolveBI awt_parseRaster and awt_parseColorModel functions; (2) a stack overflow in the Java_sun_awt_image_ImagingLib_lookupByteRaster function; and (3) improper handling of certain negative values in the Java_sun_font_SunLayoutEngine_nativeLayout function. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Reference

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