TITLE:
Gentoo update for sun-jdk/sun-jre-bin/blackdown-jdk/blackdown-jre

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18435

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18435/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued updates for sun-jdk, sun-jre-bin, blackdown-jdk,
and blackdown-jre. These fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA17748

SOLUTION:
Sun JDK users:
Update to "dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09" or later.

Sun JRE users:
Update to "dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.4.2.09" or later.

Blackdown JDK users:
Update to "dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03" or later.

Blackdown JRE users:
Update to "dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03" or later.

NOTE: No stable and secure Blackdown Java package exists for the
SPARC or PPC architectures. The vendor recommends affected users on
the PPC architecture to consider to switch to the IBM Java packages
((ibm-jdk-bin and ibm-jre-bin) and affected users on the SPARC
architecture to remove the package until a fixed package is
available.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200601-10.xml

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17748:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17748/

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