A vulnerability has been reported in multiple Hitachi products, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when processing GIF files in Java applications and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Please see the vendor's advisory for a full list of affected products.

Solution
Update to a fixed version. See vendor advisory for details.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
Hitachi:
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS09-014/index.html

Deep Links
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