CVE-2010-0841: Sun JDK

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the ImageIO component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23, and 1.4.2_25 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the March 2010 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a reliable researcher that this is an integer overflow in the Java Runtime Environment that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JPEG image that contains subsample dimensions with large values, related to JPEGImageReader and "stepX".

Affected products

• Sun JDK: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.6.0 only; up to and including 1.5.0; version 1.5.0 only
• Sun JRE: up to and including 1.6.0; version 1.6.0 only; up to and including 1.5.0; version 1.5.0 only; up to and including 1.4.2_25; version 1.4.2 only; …
• Sun SDK: up to and including 1.4.2_25; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_02 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; version 1.4.2_4 only; …

Published 2010-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.