Secunia

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Java for Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data, disclose sensitive information and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

1) An unspecified error in the handling of temporary files can be exploited in combination with a race condition to corrupt or create arbitrary files.

2) An error in the privileged helper where temporary files are insecurely created can be exploited to corrupt or create arbitrary files.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

3) An unspecified error in the utility used for updating Java shared archives can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

4) An unspecified error in the use of Mac OS X specific extensions can be exploited by untrusted malicious applets to gain escalated privileges.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

5) The problem is that a Java ServerSocket object can be created for a port which is in use. This can be exploited to intercept traffic sent to a Java application already listening on that port.

This does not affect systems prior to Mac OS X 10.4.

This update also fixes some issues in Java that aren't specific to Mac OS X.

Solution
Mac OS X 10.3.9:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1, 4) Reported by vendor
2) kf_lists
3) Dino Dai Zovi
5) eremy Pfeifer, University of Saskatchewan

Original Advisory
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302265
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302266

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area