CVE-2007-5689

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-10-23
Bugzilla:
363761: CVE-2007-5689 java-jre: Applet Privilege Escalation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in SDK and JRE 1.3.x through 1.3.1_20 and 1.4.x through 1.4.2_15, and JDK and JRE 5.x through 5.0 Update 12 and 6.x through 6 Update 2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs, or read or modify arbitrary files, via applets that grant privileges to themselves.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5689 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 5 (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2007:0963 2007-10-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras (java-1.5.0-sun) RHSA-2007:0963 2007-10-12

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