CVE-2007-2789 Information

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.

Reference

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/248 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177 http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/25295 http://secunia.com/advisories/25474 http://secunia.com/advisories/25832 http://secunia.com/advisories/26049 http://secunia.com/advisories/26119 http://secunia.com/advisories/26311 http://secunia.com/advisories/26369 http://secunia.com/advisories/26631 http://secunia.com/advisories/26645 http://secunia.com/advisories/26933 http://secunia.com/advisories/27203 http://secunia.com/advisories/27266 http://secunia.com/advisories/28056 http://secunia.com/advisories/28115 http://secunia.com/advisories/29340 http://secunia.com/advisories/29858 http://secunia.com/advisories/30780 http://secunia.com/advisories/30805 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-08.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-28.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102934-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200856-1 http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-December/001862.html http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-July/001696.html http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-July/001697.html http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-July/001708.html http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-23.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-15.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-11.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_56_ibmjava.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0817.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0829.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1086.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0100.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0133.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24004 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018182 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1836 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3009 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34654 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10800