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TITLE:
Robocode Arbitrary Java Code Execution Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28080

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28080/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Robocode 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16947/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Robocode, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in the execution of
robot methods and can be exploited by a specially crafted robot to
execute arbitrary Java code via the "SwingUtilities.invokeLater()"
method.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.5.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.1.
http://robocode.sourceforge.net/download

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits John Cleland.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=561214

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