CVE-2007-5240

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-10-03
Bugzilla:
321991: CVE-2007-5240 Applets or Applications are allowed to display an oversized window

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Visual truncation vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier allows remote attackers to circumvent display of the untrusted-code warning banner by creating a window larger than the workstation screen.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5240 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2007:1041 2007-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (java-1.4.2-bea) RHSA-2008:0100 2008-03-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 RHSA-2008:0156 2008-03-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras RHSA-2008:0156 2008-03-05
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-ibm) RHSA-2007:1041 2007-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.4.2-bea) RHSA-2008:0100 2008-03-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2007:0963 2007-10-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras (java-1.4.2-ibm) RHSA-2008:0132 2008-02-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.4.2-ibm) RHSA-2008:0132 2008-02-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.4.2-ibm) RHSA-2008:0132 2008-02-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2007:0963 2007-10-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.4.2-bea) RHSA-2008:0100 2008-03-11

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