A vulnerability has been identified in Sun JDK, JRE and SDK, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error in the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) when processing certain SSL/TLS handshake requests, which could be exploited by attackers to create a denial of service on a vulnerable system that listens for SSL/TLS connections using JSSE for SSL/TLS support.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Cisco Systems.
ChangeLog
2007-07-11 : Initial release
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