full-disclosure - Re: MS-02-052

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From: jouko at solutions.fi (Jouko Pynnonen)
Subject: Re: MS-02-052

On 19 Sep 2002 dev-null@...id.com wrote:

> Does anybody else find it disturbing that today's JVM patch can only be 
> installed through Windows Update, and the Windows Update site now 

What's perhaps more disturbing is that most of the reported JVM 
vulnerabilities weren't fixed yet and an Applet can still execute 
arbitrary code by exploiting the remaining ones. So even with the patch, 
enabling MS's Java for IE and the Internet Zone isn't a good idea right 
now.

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