Security Advisory SA10056 - Sun JRE and SDK Untrusted Applet Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA10056

Sun JRE and SDK Untrusted Applet Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA10056

Release Date

2003-10-23

Last Update

2003-10-28

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Oracle Java SDK 1.4.x / 4.x

Sun Java JRE 1.2.x

Sun Java JRE 1.3.x

Sun Java JRE 1.4.x / 4.x

Sun Java SDK 1.2.x

Sun Java SDK 1.3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

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:
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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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