Bug 516823 (CVE-2009-2720)

Summary:	CVE-2009-2720 JDK DoS with Swing Synthcontext implementation
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marc Schoenefeld <mschoene>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	rruss
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2720
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2009-08-11 15:45:23 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-2720 to the following vulnerability:

Unspecified vulnerability in the javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthContext.isSubregion method in the Swing implementation in Sun Java SE 6 before Update 15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NullPointerException in the Jemmy library) via unknown vectors. 

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u15.html