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Gentoo updates for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin
Secunia Advisory: SA25474
Release Date: 2007-06-01
Popularity: 4,562 views

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

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-2435
CVE-2007-2788
CVE-2007-2789


Description:
Gentoo has issued updates for sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin. These fix some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA25069
SA25295

Solution:
Sun Java Development Kit users:
Update to the latest version of "dev-java/sun-jdk".

Sun Java Runtime Environment users:
Update to the latest version of "dev-java/sun-jre-bin".

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-23.xml

Other References:
SA25069:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25069/

SA25295:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25295/


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