A vulnerability was found in Oracle Java JRE 7 Update 9 (Programming Language Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file MidiDevice.Info. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The issue has been introduced in 10/16/2012. The weakness was published 11/27/2012 as java-zero-day-exploit-on-sale-for-five-digits as not defined posting (Website). The advisory is shared for download at krebsonsecurity.com. The public release happened without coordination with the vendor. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 12/12/2012).

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 42 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

krebsonsecurity.com is providing further details.

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• Programming Language Software

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• Oracle

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• Java JRE

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• 7 Update 9

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• commercial

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