A vulnerability has been identified in Sun JRE (Java Runtime Environment), which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the Java Web Start component (javaws.exe) when processing a JNLP file with an overly long "codebase" attribute, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Daniel Soeder (eEye Digital Securiy).
ChangeLog
2007-07-10 : Initial release
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