| Description: | The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the software and tools that users need to run applets and applications written using the Java programming language.
These updated java-1.5.0-sun packages resolve the following security issues:
Two vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment allowed an untrusted application or applet to elevate the assigned privileges. This could be misused by a malicious website to read and write local files or execute local applications in the context of the user running the Java process. (CVE-2008-0657)
Users of java-1.5.0-sun should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
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