Advisory Details

June 27th, 2013

Oracle Java AWT Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2013-2465
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 flaw exists within the AWT mlib library. The issue lies in a failure to properly validate the number of channels leading to out-of-bounds array accesses. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
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	2013-04-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2013-06-27 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Vitaliy Toropov

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