CVE-2013-1927: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.3 and 1.3.x before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that validates as both a GIF and a Java JAR file, aka "GIFAR."

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.2 only
• Red Hat Icedtea-Web: up to and including 1.2.2; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-04-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.