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Secunia Advisory SA7555

SUN Java zlib vulnerability

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SA7555

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Release Date

2002-11-20

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Description

SUN has issued a security bulletin regarding a vulnerability in Java. Java has inherited the zlib double free vulnerability.

More details:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-07.html

This also affects Netscape 6 and 7 on Linux and other platforms, as well as Netscape 6 on Windows, Netscape 7 on Windows and Macintosh is not affected.

Vulnerable SUN products include SDK and JRE versions:
1.4.0
1.3.1_03
1.3.0_05
1.2.2_011
1.1.8_015
1.1.8_009

Solution
We recommend that you take the appropriate action as soon as possible.
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SUN Java zlib vulnerability

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