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Sun JRE and SDK Untrusted Applet Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10056
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Release Date:
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2003-10-23
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Last Update:
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2003-10-28
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Popularity:
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10,888 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Sun Java JRE 1.2.x
Sun Java JRE 1.3.x
Sun Java JRE 1.4.x
Sun Java SDK 1.2.x
Sun Java SDK 1.3.x
Sun Java SDK 1.4.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which can be exploited by malicious, untrusted applets to escalate their privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the JRE classloader.
No more information is currently available.
The following versions are affected:
* SDK and JRE 1.4.1_03 and earlier
* SDK and JRE 1.3.1_08 and earlier
* SDK and JRE 1.2.2_015 and earlier
Solution:
Update to one of the following releases available at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/
Updated releases:
* SDK and JRE 1.4.2 and later
* SDK and JRE 1.4.1_04 and later
* SDK and JRE 1.3.1_09 and later
* SDK and JRE 1.2.2_016 and later
Provided and/or discovered by:
Last Stage of Delirium
Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57221
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