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CVE-2010-0838

Affected software2 products, listed below
Severity7.5 High CVSS 2.0
Published1 Apr 2010
Updated16 Jun 2026

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java 2D component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 18, 5.0, Update, and 23 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the March 2010 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a reliable researcher that this is a stack-based buffer overflow using an untrusted size value in the readMabCurveData function in the CMM module in the JVM.

Exploitation status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue lists ready-to-run exploit code for this CVE.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Exploit-DB; first seen 2010-09-20.
  • EPSS 15% chance in 30 days A model's forecast, not a report of exploitation. Higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.
IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
Exploit-DB Java 6.19 CMM readMabCurveData - Remote Stack Overflow 2010-09-20

Waratek protection

Mitigation candidate

A kind of vulnerability Waratek's rules address, with exploit code published or exploitation reported. No rule exists and none is planned yet. The decision below says what we found to build a rule from.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Inferred
  • Record active
Decided by A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug
Finding A reference points at an upstream fix (redhat-cve tier): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0838. That makes this CVE a candidate for an ARMR patch rule — it is the kind of defect ARMR can address, and there is a fix to work from. No rule exists and none is scheduled: writing one means reading the linked change and finding a hook point ARMR can express it at, which may turn out not to exist.
Candidate fix https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0838 : a Red Hat CVE page: the weakest kind, naming no commit, though it shows Red Hat has looked at the CVE

Affected software and releases

Oracle advisories

AdvisoryTypeQuarterProducts Oracle names in its risk matrix
Java SE CPU Mar 2010 ↗ CPU 2010-Q1 Java SE and Java for Business / Java 2D (6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23)
Oracle's note: See note 1. May also be potentially vulnerable through processing untrusted data using APIs in the specified Component, and without using Java Web Start applications and applets.

Oracle components and versions

FamilyComponentVersions, as Oracle lists themRead as
Java SE and Java for Business Java 2D 6 Update 18, 5.0 Update 23 5.0.23.0 · 6.0.18.0

Products and versions

2 products, 81 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd sun jdk javase 1.5.0 · ≤ 5.0.0.0 · 1.5.0:update1 · 1.5.0:update2 · 1.5.0:update3 · 1.5.0:update4 · 1.5.0:update5 · 1.5.0:update6 · 1.5.0:update7 · 1.5.0:update8 · 1.5.0:update9 · 1.5.0:update10 · 1.5.0:update11 · 1.5.0:update12 · 1.5.0:update13 · 1.5.0:update14 · 1.5.0:update15 · 1.5.0:update16 · 1.5.0:update17 · 1.5.0:update18 · 1.5.0:update19 · 1.5.0:update20 · 1.5.0:update21 · 1.6.0 · ≤ 6.0.0.0 · 1.6.0:update1 · 1.6.0:update1_b06 · 1.6.0:update2 · 1.6.0:update_3 · 1.6.0:update_4 · 1.6.0:update_5 · 1.6.0:update_6 · 1.6.0:update_7 · 1.6.0:update_10 · 1.6.0:update_11 · 1.6.0:update_12 · 1.6.0:update_13 · 1.6.0:update_14 · 1.6.0:update_15 · 1.6.0:update_16 · 1.6.0:update_17
nvd sun jre javase 1.5.0 · ≤ 5.0.0.0 · 1.5.0:update1 · 1.5.0:update2 · 1.5.0:update3 · 1.5.0:update4 · 1.5.0:update5 · 1.5.0:update6 · 1.5.0:update7 · 1.5.0:update8 · 1.5.0:update9 · 1.5.0:update10 · 1.5.0:update11 · 1.5.0:update12 · 1.5.0:update13 · 1.5.0:update14 · 1.5.0:update15 · 1.5.0:update16 · 1.5.0:update17 · 1.5.0:update18 · 1.5.0:update19 · 1.5.0:update20 · 1.5.0:update21 · 1.6.0 · ≤ 6.0.0.0 · 1.6.0:update_1 · 1.6.0:update_2 · 1.6.0:update_3 · 1.6.0:update_4 · 1.6.0:update_5 · 1.6.0:update_6 · 1.6.0:update_7 · 1.6.0:update_10 · 1.6.0:update_11 · 1.6.0:update_12 · 1.6.0:update_13 · 1.6.0:update_14 · 1.6.0:update_15 · 1.6.0:update_16 · 1.6.0:update_17

References

URLTags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0838 redhat-cve
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0339 ADVISORY, RHSA-2010:0339
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127557596201693&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134254866602253&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/39292 Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2010-04-01By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-16NVD's own last-modified date for this record.