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Message-ID: <200405111814.i4BIEiYr018243@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: info on JRE < 1.4.2_04 vulnerability On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:19:38 EDT, "Mark W. Webb" <mark@...phtech.com> said: > I am confused, being a semi-newbie, how this can be a vulnerability > without an exploit. Is it just that Sun does not want to admit that > there is an exploit? Does anyone have any more information on this that > they can provide? The fact that nobody has produced a public piece of code that actually demonstrates the exploit doesn't mean that there isn't a bug. As an analogy - imagine if a car manufacturer issued a recall, saying "under certain timing conditions of multiple doors closing at almost the same time, the power locks may fail to actually lock all the doors". That doesn't tell you anything about whether any cars have actually been stolen because a door didn't get locked when it should have.... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040511/431a9f13/attachment.bin
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