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                       The U.S. Department of Energy
                   Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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                             INFORMATION BULLETIN

                               J2SE 5.0 Release 4

April 19, 2006 17:00 GMT                                          Number Q-181
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PROBLEM:       A security vulnerability in Java Web Start may allow an 
               untrusted application to elevate its privileges. Security 
               vulnerabilites related to the use of "reflection" APIs in the 
               Java Runtime Environment may allow an untrusted applet to 
               elevate its privileges. 
PLATFORM:      Mac OS X v10.4.5
               Mac OS X Server v10.4.5 
DAMAGE:        May allow an untrusted application and/or an untrusted applet 
               to elevate its privileges. 
SOLUTION:      Apply current patches. 
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VULNERABILITY  The risk is MEDIUM. May allow an untrusted application and/or 
ASSESSMENT:    an untrusted applet to elevate its privileges. 
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LINKS: 
 CIAC BULLETIN:      http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-181.shtml 
 ORIGINAL BULLETIN:  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303658 
 CVE:                http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= 
                     CVE-2006-0613, CVE-2006-0614, CVE-2006-0615, 
                     CVE-2006-0616, CVE-2006-0617 
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Please visit Apple's web site to view their Security Update 2006-001 Advisory:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303658  
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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Apple for the 
information contained in this bulletin.
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