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CVE-2009-2720

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

Unspecified vulnerability in the javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthContext.isSubregion method in the Swing implementation in Sun Java SE 6 before Update 15 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NullPointerException in the Jemmy library) via unknown vectors.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

SUN — Java SE

CWEs

References

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