CVE-2010-4351

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The JNLP SecurityManager in IcedTea (IcedTea.so) 1.7 before 1.7.7, 1.8 before 1.8.4, and 1.9 before 1.9.4 for Java OpenJDK returns from the checkPermission method instead of throwing an exception in certain circumstances, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the intended security policy by creating instances of ClassLoader.

Affected products

RedHat Icedtea: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5 (+9)

References

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2011/01/18/security-icedtea6-177-184-194-released/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053276.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053288.html
http://osvdb.org/70605
http://secunia.com/advisories/43002
http://secunia.com/advisories/43078
http://secunia.com/advisories/43085
http://secunia.com/advisories/43135
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2224
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:054
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0176.html

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