Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-3871 to the following vulnerability: Heap-based buffer overflow in the setBytePixels function in the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE in JDK and JRE 5.0 before Update 22, JDK and JRE 6 before Update 17, SDK and JRE 1.3.x before 1.3.1_27, and SDK and JRE 1.4.x before 1.4.2_24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments, aka Bug Id 6872358. References: ----------- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3871 http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-079/ http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-270474-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36881 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023132 http://secunia.com/advisories/37231 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3131
This issue affects the versions of the java-1.5.0-sun package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This issue affects the versions of the java-1.6.0-sun package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530063 ***