CVE-2007-0012: Sun JRE

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.5.0

Published 2008-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.