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J2RE DoS with undefined name attribute

Published Jan 9, 2008

Description

Sun JRE 5.0 before update 14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) via an object tag with an encoded applet and an undefined name attribute, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference in jpiexp32.dll when the applet is decoded and passed to the JVM.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 9, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 1, 2007
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jan 8, 2008