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Title: Java Security Flaw Post by: Phoenix on 2004-11-29, 08:49 We don't usually post stuff like this on the main page, but it's serious enough that I felt everyone should get a look at it and the topic won't be as easily buried on the news page. It appears that Java has a rather serious security hole in it that's been discovered. Since Java is a cross-platform language this means EVERYONE needs to pay attention to it, even the Linux users out there.
www.newscientist.com news item (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996724) Quote "Such [an] applet can then take any action which the user could: browse, read, or modify files, upload more programs to the victim system and run them, or send out data from the system," writes Pynnonen in an alert on his website. Download Here (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp)[/color] Title: Re: Java Security Flaw Post by: ConfusedUs on 2004-11-29, 17:26 So is that download the fix, or a link to the vulnerable program?
Title: Re: Java Security Flaw Post by: shambler on 2004-11-29, 22:22 Well, is it?
Title: Re: Java Security Flaw Post by: Phoenix on 2004-11-30, 06:51 That's the latest version of the Sun Java Run Time Environment, which according to the article contains the fix.
Title: Re: Java Security Flaw Post by: death_stalker on 2005-01-17, 08:20 Oh-uh i've been off-line for a while and didn't know of this ... :huh: which one of the down loads do I need?I've got plain old windows XP..if that helps...any advice would be very helpful :thumb:
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