CVE-2012-4540: Opensuse

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the invoke function in IcedTeaScriptablePluginObject.cc in IcedTea-Web 1.1.x before 1.1.7, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (crash), or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted webpage that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to an error message and a "triggering event attached to applet." NOTE: the 1.4.x versions were originally associated with CVE-2013-4349, but that entry has been MERGED with this one.

Affected products

• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Icedtea-Web: version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; version 1.1.5 only; …

Published 2012-11-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.