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Another Java Security Hole in Windows

Posted by timothy on from the but-that-'s-unpossible dept.

tanveer1979 writes: "An article in The Times of India reports that Sun and Miscrosoft have released a joint bulletin about a security hole in the JVM code."

3 of 26 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why link to newspapers for this sort of thing? by Account+10 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sun's part of the joint release includes the Netscape versions affected


    The full and custom installations of Netscape 6.1, 6.0.1, and 6.0
    are affected since they include an affected version of the
    Java Runtime Environment. The default Java runtime environments of
    Netscape(TM) Communicator version 4.79 and earlier are affected.
  2. Um, hello people? by Muggins+the+Mad · · Score: 3, Informative


    From the security advisory:

    Affected Releases:

    Windows Production Releases.
    Solaris Production Releases.
    Linux Production Releases.

    It's not specific to Windows.

    Maybe the editors really don't read these things.

    - MugginsM

  3. Original Vulnerability Report by Carl · · Score: 3, Informative
    See the following page for the original vulnerability report by Harmen van der Wal (as acknowledged by Sun). He even tested the Free Java implementations GNU Classpath and Kaffe.

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~harmwal/issue/wal-01.txt