CVE-2013-2423

Publication date 17 April 2013

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.7 · Low

Score breakdown

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from the original researcher that this vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass permission checks by the MethodHandles method and modify arbitrary public final fields using reflection and type confusion, as demonstrated using integer and double fields to disable the security manager.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
icedtea-web 13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
openjdk-6 13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
openjdk-6b18 13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
openjdk-7 13.04 raring
Fixed 7u21-2.3.9-1ubuntu1
12.10 quantal
Fixed 7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
11.10 oneiric
Fixed 7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

in lucid+, NetX and the plugin moved to the icedtea-web package

jdstrand

sun-java6 is not redistributable, no longer in the archive and no longer tracked sun-java5 is EOL upstream and no longer tracked as of 2013-04-19, IcedTea has not released 2.3.9 or 1.12.5 to fix this issue

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.7 · Low
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N