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A vulnerability has been reported in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation of Netscape 4 browsers. The vulnerability is due to some methods being called in an insecure way. A remote attacker is able to create a specially crafted applet that exploits this vulnerability. Thus a carefully constructed applet may be able to load a malicious class into a JVM environment and escape any existing security constraints. This may be exploited by the attacker to run malicious code on the victim user's system.

A vulnerability has been reported in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation of Netscape 4 browsers. The vulnerability is due to some methods being called in an insecure way. A remote attacker is able to create a specially crafted applet that exploits this vulnerability. Thus a carefully constructed applet may be able to load a malicious class into a JVM environment and escape any existing security constraints. This may be exploited by the attacker to run malicious code on the victim user's system.