A patch has been released by Sun Microsystems for The Java Platform Standard Edition Version 6, Update 2. The Standard Edition of Java has four different versions and the other versions are already patched before they released this patch.

Security Vendor eEye Digital Security has found the bug over six months ago. The bug lets a hacker install unauthorized software by making a malicious web site which a user may visit.

SANS Internet Storm center has issued a warning on Friday about the processing of bitmap and jpeg images in Java. However, a patch was released for these two flaws back in March.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD