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CVE-2007-2789

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 3.48%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2007-05-22 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2007-2789
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
3.48%
Linux Java

Original NVD Description

The BMP image parser in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.5.0_11-b03 and 1.6.x before 1.6.0_01-b06, and Sun Java Runtime Environment in JDK and JRE 6, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_19 and earlier, when running on Unix/Linux systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (JVM hang) via untrusted applets or applications that open arbitrary local files via a crafted BMP file, such as /dev/tty.