Security Info: Sun Java J2SE 5 and J2SE 1.4 vulnerable *update*

[Kam Leo]

On 6/14/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> As certainly many of us have Sun's Java engine installed, I like to
> inform you about following severe vulnerability:
> 
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101749-1
> 
> An urgent update is highly recommended, to version 5 update 2 either or
> 1.4.2_08! Else through a prepared webpage an applet may read and write
> to your local user files and may execute bad code.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 

I'm not sure why Sun was so late in making this announcement.  The
patch was made over two months ago.  Version 5 Update 3 has been
available since April.