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TITLE:
Sun JRE Font Parsing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26402

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26402/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Sun Java SDK 1.4.x
http://secunia.com/product/1661/
Sun Java JRE 1.5.x / 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4228/
Sun Java JDK 1.5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4621/
Sun Java JRE 1.4.x
http://secunia.com/product/784/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun JRE, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
parsing of fonts contained in Java applets. This can be exploited by
malicious, untrusted applets to read and write local files, or to
execute local applications.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products:
* JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 9 and earlier
* SDK and JRE 1.4.2_14 and earlier

SDK and JRE 1.3.1_xx are not affected by the vulnerability.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest versions or apply patches:

JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 10 or later
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 or later
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

The latest J2SE 5.0 Update Release for Solaris is also available in
the following patches:

* J2SE 5.0: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118666-12)
* J2SE 5.0: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118667-12 (64bit))
* J2SE 5.0_x86: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118668-12)
* J2SE 5.0_x86: update 12 (as delivered in patch 118669-12 (64bit))

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits John Heasman of NGSSoftware.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103024-1

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