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Sun Java Web Start Arbitrary File Overwrite Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Java Web Start is prone to a vulnerability that can result in privilege escalation.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

This issue affects these versions:

Java Web Start in JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 11 (and prior versions)
Java Web Start in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_13 (and prior versions)