Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE), which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing GIF images and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted GIF image with an image width of 0.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in the following versions:
* JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 9 and prior.
* SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and prior.
* SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and prior.
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