Reusable Code: The Mason Jars of Security

It’s early fall here in Ohio which means it’s time for the second round of canning for the winter. So last weekend my kitchen was covered in bushels of apples and pounds of greens and a whole lot of canning jars. As you know by now, I love to cook and I love a well-designed kitchen tool. Mason ja...

Signed JAR tampering — Mozilla

Security researchers Collin Jackson and Adam Barth reported a series of vulnerabilities which allow JavaScript to be injected into the context of signed JARs and executed under the context of the JAR's signer. This could allow an attacker to run JavaScript in a victim's browser with the privilege...

7.1: insecure default permissions on jars directory

Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP4 uses insecure permissions for certain directories, which allows local users to modify JAR files and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors...

CVE-2007-0415

BEA WebLogic Server 8.1–8.1 SP5 is affected by an access-control bypass after dynamic update/redeployment of applications implemented as exploded jars. The vulnerability allows bypassing intended restrictions, but the provided documents do not specify a fix/patch version or a workaround. Exploita...

PT-2003-2174 · Oracle · Sdk +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Java Secure Socket Extension JSSE in SDK and JRE versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.0 01 JSSE versions prior to 1.0.3 Java Plug-in SDK and JRE versions 1.3.0 through 1.4.1 Java Web Start versions 1.0 through 1.2 Description: The X509TrustManager in t...