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Exploit:Java/CVE-2010-0840.EW
Aliases: Java/Exploit.NF (AVG) Exploit.CVE2010-0840.18 (Dr.Web) Exploit.Java.CVE-2010-0840.db (Kaspersky) Exploit/CVE-2010-0840.R (Norman) Troj/JavaMI-Gen (Sophos) Trojan.Maljava (Symantec)
Summary
Exploit:Java/CVE-2010-0840.EW is a detection for certain malicious Java applets that exploit a vulnerability of privilege escalation, described in CVE-2010-0840. The vulnerability is present in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) versions 5 and 6. Successful exploitation could lead to the download and execution of other malware.