Secunia Security Advisory - Slackware has issued an update for sun-jdk/sun-jre. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Slackware update for sun-jdk/sun-jre
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15750
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15750/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Slackware Linux 10.0
http://secunia.com/product/4368/
Slackware Linux 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/146/
Slackware Linux 9.0
http://secunia.com/product/1336/
Slackware Linux 9.1
http://secunia.com/product/2265/
DESCRIPTION:
Slackware has issued an update for sun-jdk/sun-jre. This fixes two
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA15671
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0:
Sun JRE:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/jre-1_5_0_03-i586-1.tgz
Sun JDK:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/extra/j2sdk-1.5.0_03/j2sdk-1_5_0_03-i586-1.tgz
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.394829
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15671:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15671/
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