CVE-2007-0243: Sun JDK

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 11.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 1.5.0; version 1.5.0 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.3.1; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; version 1.4.2_4 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.3.1_01 only; version 1.3.1_01a only; version 1.3.1_16 only; version 1.3.1_18 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; …

Published 2007-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.