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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6731
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CVE-2006-6731

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SUSE
  http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0003.html
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_10_ibmjava.html

SUNALERT
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102729-1

ST
  1017425

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA23650
  Secunia Advisory: SA23445
  Secunia Advisory: SA23835
  Secunia Advisory: SA24099
  Secunia Advisory: SA24189
  Secunia Advisory: SA24468
  Secunia Advisory: SA25283
  Secunia Advisory: SA25404
  Secunia Advisory: SA28115

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0073.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0072.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0062.html

MISC
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
  http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-008.txt

HP
  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-08.xml
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-20.xml
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-15.xml

CERT-VN
  939609
  149457

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-022A.html

BID
  21675

BEA
  http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/243

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html


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