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Sun Java Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9022
Release Date: 2003-06-13
Popularity: 8,892 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Sun Java JRE 1.3.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Java 1.4.1 on Linux, which allows malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The problem is that temporary files are created in an insecure manner using predictable or easy to guess filenames. This can be exploited to escalate privileges to those of the user running Java Virtual Machine.

This has been reported to affect Sun Java j2re1.4.1_02 on Linux.

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