java/141919: Serious remote vulnerability in the JRE

[Romain Dalmaso]

>Number:         141919
>Category:       java
>Synopsis:       Serious remote vulnerability in the JRE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-java
>State:          open
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>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 23 13:40:06 UTC 2009
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>Originator:     Romain Dalmaso
>Release:        7.2-RELEASE
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>Description:
A serious vulnerability affecting all the current Java ports allows any potential attacker to take control of the machine remotely if it uses a Java application dealing with the XML parser.

The issue has been there for months, and has been fixed since Java 6 update 15 and Java 5 update 20. So simply updating the port would solve the issue.

This vulnerability affects, for instance, all the Freenet nodes running under FreeBSD : 
http://freenetproject.org/news.html#xml-vuln

More details about it : 
http://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2009/vulnerability2009085.html

Thanks for your interest.
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