Re: Java and openjdk

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On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> And the simple fact that those of us who want a working java are going to
> >> the sun site, getting the latest jre and installing it, never again to
> >> click on an ICED TEA update in yumex.  Really, I think that says it all. 
> >> You for legal reasons are defending an emasculated version, but the final
> >> say on what gets run is us, its our machine.  Sue us?  I doubt it. :)
> >
> >It is not iced tea now. It is called OpenJDK and that is a certified
> >Java from Sun.  I won't sue for getting the details wrong ;-)
> >
> >Rahul
> 
> Oh?  From my yumex screen (F8 install)
> java-1.7.0-icedtea
> jave-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin
> 
> and from an rpm -qa|grep java
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8
> java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-17.fc8
> tzdata-java-2008d-1.fc8
> glib-java-0.2.6-10.fc8
> java_cup-0.10-0.k.6jpp.1
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin-1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8
> 
> Humm, I may be wrong about not having icedtea
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icedtea was F8, but not F9
----
> [root@coyote ~]# which java
> /usr/bin/java
> [root@coyote ~]# ls -l `which java`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2008-03-31 
> 19:34 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java
> [root@coyote ~]# ls -l /etc/alternatives/java/
> ls: cannot access /etc/alternatives/java/: Not a directory
> [root@coyote ~]# ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2008-03-31 
> 19:41 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-icedtea/bin/java
> 
> However, from FF's about:plugins, I get this:
> Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_06-b02
> 
>     File name: /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>     Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_06
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which java command is for running java from command shell

java plugin in Firefox is a separate issue...what's so difficult to
understand about that?
----
> 
> So, do I need to replace that link?  By installing the yumex offerings and 
> bearing in mind that I long since gave up trying to keep up with every new 
> browser version having its own plugins dir, created one & put all the plugins 
> there, and linked all the other browsername/plugins to it?
> 
> In that case, is it safe to do so since updates are not yet flowing?  Those 
> are old packages that have been sitting there for a month or more.
> 
> A side note, we (my local group of friends) have found a blog
> <http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1803&tag=nl.e539> that gives a few hints 
> on finding out if we too have been infected.  According to it, no systems 
> here are.  The point being that the extreme privacy this has been kept under 
> has now been exposed, letting the horse out of the barn so to speak, and this 
> list deserves more candor from its 'parent' regarding it.  We had been led to 
> believe this was only a debian problem because of the speedup shortcut in the 
> random number section of the code supposedly only they used.  If this is a 
> different exploit, then we need to know.  We aren't above pulling in the 
> src's and building our own you know, however my reading that code is not 
> going to tell me if its safe, so I've told the one in my local group who was 
> going to do that to hold off another day or so...  His exposure to an exploit 
> is 100x that of mine, so lets see some activity of some kind other than take 
> a potato and wait.  We are beginning to need a second potato to stave off the 
> hunger here.
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as someone who runs gui as root...you have so many issues to worry about
I wouldn't know where to start...in fact, your assertion that someone
else has an exposure to exploitation more than you is laughable.

Craig

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