CVE-2013-1927 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1927?

CVE-2013-1927 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 29 Apr 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The IcedTea-Web plugin before 1.2.3 and 1.3.x before 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that validates as both a GIF and a Java JAR file, aka "GIFAR."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1927?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Icedtea-Web.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1927?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2013-1927 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1927 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1927, GHSA-h9w9-hgh2-mwrp.