Advisory Details

June 27th, 2013

Oracle Java AWT Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2013-2470
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Oracle
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Java Runtime
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific vulnerability is an array indexing flaw inside the Java AWT imaging library allowing for memory corruption. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability into remote execution of arbitrary code as the current user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Oracle has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2013-1899847.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2013-03-29 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2013-06-27 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Vitaliy Toropov

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