Is sun-java6 6.26-0squeeze1 vulnerable to CVE-2012-1723?

Kevin kevin40 at fastmail.fm
Tue Aug 14 21:36:09 UTC 2012


> It is quite possible that sun-java6 is vulnerable to that CVE; I haven't
> checked.  The problem is that we cannot do anything about it as we do
> not have permission to distribute updates for sun-java6[1]...

Thanks for the explanation. I understand this package has been dropped
from testing and unstable. Is there a way other than the Mozilla blocklist 
to inform Squeeze users that they are running an insecure package? Since
I'm running "stable" and this package is still present in the repository,
I assumed it was still receiving security updates. 

Forgive me if this is a naive question, but should the package be removed 
from stable so users are not unwittingly given a false sense of security?

Thanks,
Kevin

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