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Sid
20820

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in j2se.

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

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Detailed Information:
Argument injection vulnerability in Java Web Start for J2SE 1.4.2 up to 1.4.2_06, on Mac OS X, allows untrusted applications to gain privileges via the value parameter of a property tag in a JNLP file. NOTE: it is highly likely that this item will be MERGED with CVE-2005-0836.

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Affected Systems:
sun j2se 1.4.2
sun j2se 1.4.2
sun j2se 1.4.2 01
sun j2se 1.4.2 01
sun j2se 1.4.2 02
sun j2se 1.4.2 02
sun j2se 1.4.2 03
sun j2se 1.4.2 03
sun j2se 1.4.2 04
sun j2se 1.4.2 04
sun j2se 1.4.2 05
sun j2se 1.4.2 05
sun j2se 1.4.2 06
sun j2se 1.4.2 06

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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-2005-0418:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2005-0418
  
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