About:
The Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition (JSE) Development Kit (JDK) contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs for developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in the Java programming language. The JSE Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.

Release focus: Major security fixes

Changes:
This release fixes several security flaws, such as DoS vulnerabilites, buffer overflows, and other bugs which could lead to crashes or which would give applets access to certain system resources. These vulnerabilites were located in Java Web Start, in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Management Agent, and in the functions for handling XML data. They are reported as Sun Alerts 238687, 238628, 238965, 238966, 238967, 238968, and 238905.

Author:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.17/10.00 (14 votes)

Homepage:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
Tar/GZ:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/
Changelog:
http://java.sun.com/[..]vase/6/webnotes/ReleaseNotes.html#160_07
RPM package:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		Free To Use But Restricted, SUN Binary Code License, SUN Community Source License
[Programming Language]		Java
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Java 5	1.5.0_16	23-Jul-2008	SUN Community Source License
Development	7 Build 31	23-Jul-2008	SUN Binary Code License
Java 6	6u7	23-Jul-2008	SUN Community Source License
Source	1.4.1	13-Jan-2003	SUN Community Source License

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
6u7	Major security fixes	23-Jul-2008 13:08
6u6	Minor bugfixes	25-Apr-2008 20:31
6u5	Minor security fixes	06-Mar-2008 18:16
6u4	Minor bugfixes	14-Jan-2008 22:08
6u3	Minor bugfixes	03-Oct-2007 20:42
6u2	Minor bugfixes	08-Jul-2007 11:24
6u1	Minor bugfixes	02-May-2007 17:36
6	Major feature enhancements	23-Dec-2006 02:10

 Articles referencing this project

SuSE: New Sun Java packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 06:40 Red Hat: Updated java-1.5.0-sun packages correct several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 21st 2008 01:20 Red Hat: Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages correct several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 21st 2008 01:18 SuSE: New Sun Java packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 7th 2008 03:32 Red Hat: Updated java-1.5.0-sun packages correct several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 24th 2008 06:32

Red Hat: Updated java-1.5.0-sun packages correct several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Mar 16th 2008 12:04 SuSE: New Sun Java packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Oct 20th 2007 13:11 Red Hat: Updated java-1.5.0-sun packages correct several security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Oct 20th 2007 12:57 SuSE: New Java packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 23rd 2007 02:48 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Java 5.0
by Boris Folgmann - Oct 11th 2004 01:59:31

Please note that SUN renamed the 1.5.0 release to 5.0.

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[»] 1.4.1 sources ?
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Nov 17th 2002 10:22:05

2 months after the 1.4.1 release and no sign of the sources.

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[»] Re: 1.4.1 sources ?
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Mar 15th 2004 23:37:18


> 2 months after the 1.4.1 release and no
> sign of the sources.

It's also worth mentioning that the current sources are for 1.4.2, meaning it's probably missing everything that got into 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, and 1.4.2_04. Maybe not that useful unless you like to compile everything and don't care about not running the latest version. Maybe ESR is right.

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[»] sun's official licensing statement
by reklis - Dec 13th 1999 11:48:40

quote from sun.com:

Sun is making the Java 2 SDK source code available to the developer community as part of Sun's Community Source Licensing Program. This release is intended to further propel innovation of the Java platform and provide developers with easier access to the Java platform sources while still maintaining compatibility. With the source code, software developers are able to:

fix platform bugs or performance bottlenecks that are impeding the development or deployment of an application
implement new APIs which need access to platform internals

Note that for compatibility reasons, new public methods or classes may not be added to the core Java technology packages. Any such API additions would result in a conformance test failure.

While the Java 2 platform source code is available for any software developer, we recommend that you consider the following before downloading the code:

Modified source code cannot be distributed without the express written permission of Sun
Binary programs built using modified Java 2 SDK source code may not be distributed, internally or externally, without meeting the compatibility and royalty requirements described in the License Agreement
Building, porting, and testing the Java 2 SDK source code requires a high level of technical expertise.
The Java 2 SDK source code is not the compiled Java™ 2 SDK.

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