VAR-199907-0005
Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-03 22:22The Sun HotSpot Performance Engine VM allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service on any server running HotSpot via a URL that includes the [ character. When IIS and Sun's Java HotSpot Performance engine are running simultaneously, the following URL will cause the system to crash: h t t p ://targethost/servlet/[ The following is the error message:
HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, Internal Error
Error ID: 4649454C44345950450E4350500026
Affected processes are Jrun, ServletExec and IIS
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