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.
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2789 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10800 cve-icon cve-icon
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-05-22T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:49:57.366Z

Reserved: 2007-05-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-2789

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2007-05-22T00:30:00.000

Modified: 2019-08-01T12:21:10.037

Link: CVE-2007-2789

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-2789 - Bugzilla