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Java Web Start vulnerability
Computerworld Staff  10 July, 2007 11:46

NGSSoftware has discovered a high risk vulnerability in Sun Microsystem's Java Web Start that ships with the JRE and JDK on Windows platforms.

The vulnerability may allow an untrusted application to grant itself permissions to overwrite any file that is writable by the user running the application.

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