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Vulnerability record · CVE-2009-3879 · published 9 November 2009

CVE-2009-3879: Sun jre vulnerability

Sun · Jre

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the (1) X11 and (2) Win32GraphicsDevice subsystems in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to failure to clone arrays that are returned by the getConfigurations function, aka Bug Id 6822057.

7.5 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 2.3% · top 17.0%
7.5CVSS 2.0 base score
2.3%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
16References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the (1) X11 and (2) Win32GraphicsDevice subsystems in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17, and OpenJDK, have unknown impact and attack vectors, related to failure to clone arrays that are returned by the getConfigurations function, aka Bug Id 6822057.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html Vendor Advisory
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530297
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7545
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9568
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html Vendor Advisory
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37386
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530297
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7545
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9568

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