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Java 2 Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA25069
Release Date: 2007-05-01
Last Update: 2007-05-07
Popularity: 12,551 views

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

Software:Sun Java Enterprise System 5.x
Sun Java JDK 1.5.x
Sun Java JRE 1.4.x
Sun Java JRE 1.5.x / 5.x
Sun Java SDK 1.4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in the Java Web Start of the Java 2 Platform, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the use of system classes. This can e.g. be exploited to read and write to local files via malicious Java Web Start Applications.

The vulnerability is reported in Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 and Java Web Start in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_13 and earlier for Windows, Solaris and Linux.

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