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Macintosh java updates
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:24:58 -0400
Can someone more Macintosh literate than me explain how java security updates are handled on the Macintosh platform? Apple's web site says "Apple has optimized Java on Mac OS X". http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/ Sun's java site says to download java from the Apple site: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp links to: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javaformacosx104release5.html The update offered there is dated February 15th, 2007. The only java versions available are 1.5.0_07 and 1.4.2_12. Those versions are significantly out of date. There have been at least six critical java security udpates since December that are not included in the offered versions. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer James Madison University www.jmu.edu/computing/security
Current thread:
- Macintosh java updates Gary Flynn (Jul 17)
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- Re: Macintosh java updates Julian Y. Koh (Jul 17)
- Re: Macintosh java updates Curt Wilson (Jul 18)