CVE-2009-3869: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 65.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the setDiffICM function in the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22, JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_27, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument, aka Bug Id 6872357.

Affected products

• Sun JDK: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.5.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; …
• Sun SDK: version 1.4.2_01 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_03 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; …

Published 2009-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.