{"id":312,"date":"2004-11-24T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2004\/11\/25\/CRITICAL+Sun+Java+Plugin+Security+Vulnerability"},"modified":"2004-11-24T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T03:46:15","slug":"critical-sun-java-plugin-security-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/24\/critical-sun-java-plugin-security-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CRITICAL: Sun Java Plug-in security vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s patch-time again and this one&#8217;s not from Microsoft! (Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; poor security is an industry-wide problem.) Anyway, this one is brought to you by Sun Microsystems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A vulnerability has been discovered in the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) where applets can break out of the sandbox. This vulnerability applies to all&nbsp;OSs where Java can&nbsp;run.&nbsp;Only the latest JRE\/SDK has the fix &#8211; 1.4.2_06 (and later) and 1.3.1_13 (and later). Here&#8217;s the security alert from Sun:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sunsolve.sun.com\/search\/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57591-1\">http:\/\/sunsolve.sun.com\/search\/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57591-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a chatty description comparing Java applets to Hannibal Lechter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0102926\/\">Silence of the Lambs<\/a>), check out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isc.sans.org\/diary.php?date=2004-11-23\">http:\/\/isc.sans.org\/diary.php?date=2004-11-23<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Various security advisories with more details than the Sun security alert can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/13271\/\">http:\/\/secunia.com\/advisories\/13271\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jouko.iki.fi\/adv\/javaplugin.html\">http:\/\/jouko.iki.fi\/adv\/javaplugin.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s patch-time again and this one&#8217;s not from Microsoft! (Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; poor security is an industry-wide problem.) Anyway, this one is brought to you by Sun Microsystems&#8230; A vulnerability has been discovered in the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) where applets can break out of the sandbox. This vulnerability applies to all&nbsp;OSs where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}