CVE-2003-0896

published 2003-11-17

CVE-2003-0896: The loadClass method of the sun.applet.AppletClassLoader class in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in Sun SDK and JRE 1.4.1_03 and earlier allows remote…

Priority P3 43 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

The loadClass method of the sun.applet.AppletClassLoader class in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in Sun SDK and JRE 1.4.1_03 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code via a loaded class name that contains "/" (slash) instead of "." (dot) characters, which bypasses a call to the Security Manager's checkPackageAccess method.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
sun	jre	<= 1.4.1	—

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