Gentoo: GLSA-200602-07 Normal: Sun JDK/JRE Applet Escalation Threat
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February 15, 2006
Sun's Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) do not adequately constrain applets from privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200602-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Sun JDK/JRE: Applet privilege escalation
Date: February 15, 2006
Bugs: #122156
ID: 200602-07
Synopsis
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Sun's Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) do
not adequately constrain applets from privilege escalation and
arbitrary code execution.
Background
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Sun's JDK and JRE provide interpreters for Java Applets in a sandboxed
environment. These implementations provide the Java Web Start
technology that can be used for easy client-side deployment of Java
applications.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-java/sun-jdk < 1.4.2.10 ...
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