Researchers find new vulnerability in Java
- USA: Thursday, September 27 - 2012 at 09:53
Security researchers have claimed to have found yet another vulnerability in Java that can completely bypass the security sandbox implemented in several versions of the programme, Zdnet has reported. Security Explorations founder and CEO Adam Gowdiak said the vulnerability his company had discovered affects all that latest versions of Oracle's Java SE software. "The impact of this issue is critical — we were able to successfully exploit it, and achieve a complete Java security sandbox bypass in the environment of Java SE 5, 6 and 7," he said. The exploit was tested and confirmed to be working on a fully-patched 32-bit Windows 7 system, under Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari.
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