Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability

2013-01-18 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
with the famed Java Applet disappearing into history. > > [ ... ] > > -Original Message- > From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 19:29 > To: Dennis Hamilton > Cc: lj; Libreoffice Discussion List > Subject: Re: [tdf-di

RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability

2013-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ebmink.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 19:29 To: Dennis Hamilton Cc: lj; Libreoffice Discussion List Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability I'm investigating, but the issue is a sandbox security manager bypass using unauthorised reflection and that

RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability

2013-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, January 15, 2013 19:29 To: Dennis Hamilton Cc: lj; Libreoffice Discussion List Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability I'm investigating, but the issue is a sandbox security manager bypass using unauthorised reflection and that's exploited using Rhino J

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability

2013-01-15 Thread Simon Phipps
I'm investigating, but the issue is a sandbox security manager bypass using unauthorised reflection and that's exploited using Rhino Javascript. So the context has to be a browser for there to be an issue even if OpenJDK is affected. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-0422 for

RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security: OpenJDK Vulnerability

2013-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Again, thanks to Simon Phipps for retweeting the information. It appears that one should *not* assume that OpenJDK does not share vulnerabilities with the Oracle Java SE and JDK: The log of changes to OpenJDK for the recent vulnerability (just as indication of the Oracle updating of OpenJDK): <