A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Java, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to an unspecified error in the Java Runtime Environment Swing library, which could allow malicious applets to gain unauthorized access to data from other applets.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tom Hawtin
ChangeLog
2006-11-15 : Initial release
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