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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200705-20

Posted May 31, 2007

Authored by Gentoo | Site security.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-20 - Chris Evans has discovered multiple buffer overflows in the Sun JDK and the Sun JRE possibly related to various AWT and font layout functions. Tom Hawtin has discovered an unspecified vulnerability in the Sun JDK and the Sun JRE relating to unintended applet data access. He has also discovered multiple other unspecified vulnerabilities in the Sun JDK and the Sun JRE allowing unintended Java applet or application resource acquisition. Additionally, a memory corruption error has been found in the handling of GIF images with zero width field blocks. Versions less than 1.4.2.03-r14 are affected.

tags | advisory, java, overflow, vulnerability

systems | linux, gentoo

advisories | CVE-2006-6731, CVE-2006-6736, CVE-2006-6737, CVE-2006-6745

SHA-256 | 8fdfae7708b71e8cc23b83550f7aac157241039b468621fde7436a4f1c783fac

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