Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On 7/7/05, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>
>>>If you use Java 1.4.2, you may want to know that there is a
>>>potentially a major security hole in it.
>>>
>>>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/061505-sun-java.html
>>>
>>>As of 3 weeks ago, Sun was recommending everyone upgrade to Java 1.5
>>>to address the issue.  I don't know if 1.4.2 patches came out or not.
>>So, we should remove 1.4.2 and install 1.5?
>>
> 
> I just checked and JRE 1.4.2_08 has the security issue resolved.
> 
> Based on Mark Gray's e-mail it appears that SuSE has the corresponding
> patch in its latest 1.4.2 JRE.

I ran an online update a couple of days ago, so I should be OK then.