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1. JAVA FOR MAC OS X 10.6 UPDATE 17 INSTALL
2. JAVA FOR MAC OS X 10.6 UPDATE 17 PATCH
3. JAVA FOR MAC OS X 10.6 UPDATE 17 SOFTWARE

Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. An out of bounds memory access issue exists in the handling of mediaLibImage objects.Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.5.0_22, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox.Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.6.0_17, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox.Here's the skinny from an Apple advisory:

JAVA FOR MAC OS X 10.6 UPDATE 17 PATCH

The Java for Mac patch batch, available for Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.6, includes a fix for a vulnerability that's more than a year old. Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or e-mail us!īe sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums.Apple has released a Java for Mac update to fix about 30 documented vulnerabilities, including some that exposes Mac users to remote code execution attacks. While Apple has been criticized for lagging behind in its support of Java updates, this update has been released in less than a week since the initial reports of the latest Flashback malware variant.

JAVA FOR MAC OS X 10.6 UPDATE 17 INSTALL

This update is highly recommended for people with Java installed on their systems, as it patches an exploit that is actively being pursued by malware developers, so be sure to back up your systems and install this update as soon as possible to close off this avenue for attack. If you have Java installed, you can check the version in the Java Preferences utility in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder, or you can launch the Terminal and run the command "java -version" to see an output of the current active version on your system. This latest update should bring the installed version of Java 1.6.0 to version 31. These updates specifically patch the CVE-2012-0507 vulnerability that was being used by the Flashback malware to exploit Mac systems, but in addition it has patched a number of other vulnerabilities in version 29 of the Java 1.6.0 VM. The update is available only for OS X 10.6 and 10.7, since Apple has stopped supporting prior versions of OS X.

JAVA FOR MAC OS X 10.6 UPDATE 17 SOFTWARE

The patch is available via Software Update for systems that have Java installed, but can also be downloaded from the following Apple support Web pages. Following the recent Flashback malware developments for OS X where unpatched vulnerabilities in the latest Java runtime for OS X were being exploited, Apple has issued an update that brings Java up-to-date and patches these vulnerabilities.