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Secunia Advisory SA12206

Sun Java JRE/SDK XSLT Processor Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA12206
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Release Date 2004-08-03
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Sun Java JRE 1.4.x
Sun Java SDK 1.4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Marc Schoenefeld has discovered a vulnerability in Sun Java JRE/SDK, allowing an untrusted applet to gain escalated privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the XSLT processor. This allows applets to read data from other applets being processed or gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability affects the following versions on Windows, Solaris, and Linux platforms:
* SDK and JRE 1.4.2_04 or earlier
* SDK and JRE 1.4.1_07 or earlier
* SDK and JRE 1.4.0_04 or earlier


Solution
Update to version 1.4.2_05 or later.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Marc Schoenefeld

Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57613

Deep Links
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