Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23835
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23835/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Privilege escalation, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin. This fixes
some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to
bypass certain security restrictions or compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA23398
SA23445
SOLUTION:
All sun-jdk users:
Update to the latest version of "dev-java/sun-jdk".
All sun-jre-bin users:
Update to the latest version of "dev-java/sun-jre-bin".
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-15.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA23398:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23398/
SA23445:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23445/
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