SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA23398

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/23398/

CRITICAL: Moderately critical

IMPACT: Security Bypass

SOFTWARE:
Sun Java JDK 1.5.x - http://secunia.com/product/4621/
Sun Java JRE 1.5.x / 5.x - http://secunia.com/product/4228/
Sun Java JRE 1.4.x - http://secunia.com/product/784/
Sun Java JRE 1.3.x - http://secunia.com/product/87/
Sun Java SDK 1.4.x - http://secunia.com/product/1661/
Sun Java SDK 1.3.x - http://secunia.com/product/1660/

DESCRIPTION: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Sun Java JRE (Java Runtime Environment), which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors in the Java Runtime Environment and may allow a malicious, untrusted applet to access data in other applets.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following versions:
* JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 6 and prior
* SDK and JRE 1.4.2_12 and prior
* SDK and JRE 1.3.1_18 and prior

SOLUTION: Update to fixed versions.
JDK and JRE 5.0: Update to JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 7 or later. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
SDK and JRE 1.4.x: Update to SDK and JRE 1.4.2_13 or later. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
SDK and JRE 1.3.x: Update to SDK and JRE 1.3.1_19 or later. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: The vendor credits Tom Hawtin.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102732-1