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Gentoo update for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin
Secunia Advisory: SA23835
Release Date: 2007-01-23
Popularity: 7,460 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6736
CVE-2006-6737
CVE-2006-6745


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA23398
SA23445

Solution:
All sun-jdk users:
Update to the latest version of "dev-java/sun-jdk".

All sun-jre-bin users:
Update to the latest version of "dev-java/sun-jre-bin".

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-15.xml

Other References:
SA23398:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23398/

SA23445:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23445/


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