Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Sun Java Runtime Environment, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by unspecified errors when handling certain untrusted applications or applets, which could be exploited by a malicious web site to cause a downloaded application or applet to elevate its privileges and grant itself permissions to read and write local files or execute local applications with the privileges of the logged-on user.
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2008-02-06 : Initial release
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