CVE-2009-3880 Information

Description

The Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Sun Java SE 5.0 before Update 22 and 6 before Update 17 and OpenJDK does not properly restrict the objects that may be sent to loggers which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to the implementation of Component KeyboardFocusManager and DefaultKeyboardFocusManager aka Bug Id 6664512.

Reference

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u17.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37386 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-02.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:084 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530296 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10761 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7316