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Gentoo: GLSA-200506-14 Normal: Sun and Blackdown Applet Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2005
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Gentoo Advisory GLSA 202310-05 outlines a security vulnerability in the Oracle and OpenJDK Java environments, allowing unauthorized privilege escalation.
Sun's and Blackdown's JDK or JRE may allow untrusted applets to elevate their privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation Date: June 19, 2005 Bugs: #96092, #96229 ID: 200506-14

Synopsis ======= Sun's and Blackdown's JDK or JRE may allow untrusted applets to elevate their privileges.
Background ========= Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-java/sun-jdk < 1.4.2.08 >= 1.4.2.08 2 dev-java/sun-jre-bin < 1.4.2.08 >= 1.4.2.08 3 dev-java/blackdown-jdk < 1.4.2.02...

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