{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4540 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2012-4540 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 11 Nov 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2012-4540 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2012-4540 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 11 Nov 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4540 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Opensuse Opensuse. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4540/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4540/index.md)","id":"CVE-2012-4540","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-4540/index.md","name":"CVE-2012-4540","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4540","DSA-2768-1","GHSA-44v2-cg42-mx34","RHSA-2012:1434"],"analysis":{"component_type":"browser","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service","data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IcedTea-Web plugin","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code, cause crashes, or read sensitive data via a crafted webpage exploiting a heap-based buffer overflow in the IcedTea-Web 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n/a","id":"CVE-2015-0491","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-04-16"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2388","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2008-06-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2010-1866","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-05-07"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-0492","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-04-16"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-0158","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-04-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-4343","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-05-22"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of 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