{
    "id": "CVE-2007-0243",
    "published": "2007-01-17 22:28:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:35:11",
    "cvss_score": "6.8",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "cwe": "CWE-119",
    "description": "Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which triggers memory corruption.",
    "epss_score": "0.11335",
    "epss_percentile": "0.95844",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27 18:17:06",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "sun",
            "product": "jdk"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "sun",
            "product": "jre"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "sun",
            "product": "sdk"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "3168",
            "title": "Sun Microsystems Java - '.GIF' File Parsing Memory Corruption",
            "date": "2007-01-21",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3168"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/242",
        "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177",
        "http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579",
        "http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html",
        "http://osvdb.org/32834",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/23757",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/24189",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/24202",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/24468",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/24993",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/25283",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/26049",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/26119",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/26645",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/27203",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/28115",
        "http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-08.xml",
        "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2158",
        "http://securitytracker.com/id?1017520",
        "http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102760-1",
        "http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/4f850d1e2b871db609de64ec70f0089c.html",
        "http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/d2f549cc040cd81ae4a268bb5edfe918.html",
        "http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-07.xml",
        "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/388289",
        "http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html"
    ]
}