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Sun JRE and SDK Untrusted Applet Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10056
Release Date: 2003-10-23
Last Update: 2003-10-28
Popularity: 12,042 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

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

Change Page:
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