Dalibor Topic wrote:

> First part of the problem was the JavaScript bridge, which allowed
> access to sun.* code, and the second part was sun.misc.Unsafe, which
> allows kicking the legs under the Java security mechanism in three lines
> of pure Java code, once you get access to it.
> 
> The exploit only works on VMs with a sun.misc.Unsafe class, obviously.
> Microsoft's JVM is not affected.

Are you suggesting that by the very nature of being named
'sun.misc.Unsafe' there's a problem or might it simply be a bug in the
implementation?

If we took the j.u.c code and renamed the package, we'd be ok?

geir

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