Sun Java Runtime Environment Virtual Machine Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Sun Java Runtime Environment Virtual Machine Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Sun Java Runtime Environment Virtual Machine is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability when running untrusted applications or applets.

Successful exploits may allow attackers to read, write, or execute arbitrary local files in the context of the user running an untrusted application in the affected virtual machine. This may result in a compromise of the underlying system.

This issue affects the following versions:

JDK and JRE 6 Update 6 and earlier
JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 15 and earlier
SDK and JRE 1.4.2_17 and earlier