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sun-java: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):sun-jdk sun-jre CVE #(s):
Created:February 15, 2010 Updated:February 17, 2010
Description:

From the Pardus advisory:

The vulnerability is caused from package.py, postInstall script of sun-java package. It tries to create /opt/sun-jdk/jre/.systemPrefs directory with "os.makedirs()" function, however default permission of the directories created by os.makedirs() is 0777. This allows anyone to replace sun java binaries, which can be used to execute arbitrary code.

NOTE: This vulnerability is Pardus specific.

Alerts:
Pardus 2010-31 2010-02-14

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