CVE-2012-0501 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0501?

CVE-2012-0501 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Jre, published on 15 Feb 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 2 and earlier, 6 Update 30 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 33 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0501?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Jre, Sun Jre.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0501?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-0501 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0501 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Jre

• CVE-2013-2465 Oracle Java SE Unspecified Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-5076 Oracle Java SE Sandbox Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-0431 Oracle JRE Sandbox Bypass Exploited Low 3.7
• CVE-2012-0497 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-0498 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Jre vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8366-7q28-v2hw.