Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2539

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-05-22 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 17:51:04
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Sybase EAServer 5.0 for HP-UX Itanium, 5.2 for IBM AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, Linux x86, and Sun Solaris SPARC, and 5.3 for Sun Solaris SPARC does not properly protect passwords when they are being entered via the GUI, which allows local users to obtain the cleartext passwords via the getSelectedText function in javax.swing.JPasswordField component.