Hello Maintainers: My name's Willian and I'm a Linux Mint 12 user (wheezy/sid in /etc/debian_version)
I was checking the plugins I'm using in Firefox with Plugin Check page ( http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/) and it reported me that my Java plugin is outdated. Also, they told me there are some security risk running this outdated version. The version it reported me was 1.6.0_26, which is the same I'm using over here. I was reading the changelog from version from 1.6.0_27 to 1.6.0_31 and there are some security vulnerabilities which were fixed, but we are missing them because the official debian package is not updated. Those security are below: $ dpkg --list | grep sun-java6 ii sun-java6-bin 6.26-1linuxmint1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files) ii sun-java6-jre 6.26-1linuxmint1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files) ii sun-java6-plugin 6.26-1linuxmint1 Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6 $ The java lib for firefox is libnpjp2.so, which comes with "sun-java6-bin" package, which the most recent Debian package is 1.6.0_26. The most updated Sun Java 6 is 1.6.0_31. So I would like to know if you guys could update it. I know how to manually update it, but i think it's important to update the debian package as well because it would update all Debian users and alike. I have some knowledge about building RPM packages, never did a Debian package. But I can learn it and generate an updated version of all sun-java6 packages if you guys prefer this way. About latest Sun Java release http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/releasenotes-136954.html Link for security notes from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u31-relnotes-1482342.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u29-relnotes-507960.html Thanks, Willian.
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