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Sun JRE Font Parsing Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA26402

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Release Date:

2007-08-16

Last Update:

2007-10-30

Popularity:

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Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

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

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Solution:
Update to the latest versions or apply patches:

JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 or later
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 or later
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

The latest J2SE 5.0 Update Release for Solaris is also available in the following patches:

* J2SE 5.0: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118666-12)
* J2SE 5.0: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118667-12 (64bit))
* J2SE 5.0_x86: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118668-12)
* J2SE 5.0_x86: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118669-12 (64bit))

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits John Heasman of NGSSoftware.

Changelog:
2007-08-22: Added CVE reference.
2007-10-30: Added reporter link to the "Original Advisory" section.

Original Advisory:
Sun Microsystems:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103024-1

NGSSoftware:
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories...rability-in-java-virtual-machine-ttf/

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