A vulnerability has been identified in Sun JRE, JDK and SDK, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an error in the font parsing code, which could be exploited by a malicious applet to grant itself permissions to read and write local files or execute local applications that are accessible to the user running the untrusted applet.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by John Heasman (NGSSoftware).
ChangeLog
2007-08-17 : Initial release
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