Star Sun Plugs Java Holes; Apple Security Updates; Windows Flaw
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 30th Nov 2005 01:05 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Privacy, Security, Encryption Sun Microsystems has fixed five security bugs in Java that expose computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris to hacker attack. In the meantime Apple also released a Mac OS X security update for apache_mod_ssl, CoreFoundation, CoreTypes, curl, iodbcadmin, OpenSSL, Safari, sudo, syslog. Elsewhere, computer code posted can crash vulnerable Windows machines by exploiting a "critical" Windows flaw disclosed and patched by Microsoft in October.
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Old flaws
by on Wed 30th Nov 2005 02:16 UTC

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Hehe, wow, a news about month old 'critical Windows flaw'. If the thing was patched why bother?

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RE: Old flaws
by Eugenia on Wed 30th Nov 2005 02:18 in reply to "Old flaws"
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2005-06-28

Because now some code was posted showing how to use that flaw. Thing is, many people still don't upgrade regularly.

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v RE[2]: Old flaws
by on Wed 30th Nov 2005 02:25 in reply to "RE: Old flaws"
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