CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4420
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
An information disclosure flaw was found in the way the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation of Java SE 7 as provided by OpenJDK 7 incorrectly initialized integer arrays after memory allocation (in certain circumstances they had nonzero elements right after the allocation). A remote attacker could use this flaw to obtain potentially sensitive information.
Affected configurations
• oracle jdk 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55538 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4420 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7196857 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4420 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78693 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/12/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55538 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4420 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7196857 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4420 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78693 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/12/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory