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Sid
16000

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in jdk.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
Buffer overflow in Sun JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 9 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and earlier allows applets to gain privileges via a GIF image with a block with a 0 width field, which triggers memory corruption.

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Affected Systems:
Sun jdk 1.5.0
Sun jdk 1.5.0
Sun jdk 1.5.0
Sun jdk 1.5.0
Sun jdk 1.5.0
Sun jdk 1.5.0

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2007-0243:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2007-0243
  
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