CVE-2013-1480: Oracle JDK

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 through Update 11, 6 through Update 38, 5.0 through Update 38, and 1.4.2_40 and earlier, and OpenJDK 6 and 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to AWT. NOTE: the previous information is from the February 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to "insufficient validation of raster parameters" in awt_parseImage.c, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

• Oracle JDK: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only; up to and including 1.4.2_40; version 1.4.2_38 only
• Oracle JRE: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only; up to and including 1.4.2_40; version 1.4.2_38 only
• Sun JDK: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; …
• Sun JRE: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.5.0 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.2_1 only; version 1.4.2_2 only; version 1.4.2_3 only; …

Published 2013-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.