"Five months ago, CVE-2008-5353 and other vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed, and fixed by Sun.
CVE-2008-5353 allows malicious code to escape the Java sandbox and run arbitrary commands with the permissions of the executing user. This may result in untrusted Java applets executing arbitrary code merely by visiting a web page hosting the applet. The issue is trivially exploitable.

Unfortunately, these vulnerabilities remain in Apple's shipping JVMs, as well as Soylatte 1.0.3. As Soylatte does not provide browser plugins, the impact of the vulnerability is reduced. The recent release of OpenJDK6/Mac OS X is not affected by CVE-2008-5353.

Work-Arounds:

Mac OS X users should disable Java applets in their browsers and disable 'Open "safe" files after downloading' in Safari.

Soylatte users running untrusted code should upgrade to an OpenJDK6-based release, where possible. No future releases of the JRL-based Soylatte branch are planned at this time. If this is an issue for you, please feel free to contact me.

No work-around is available for users otherwise running Java untrusted code."

Landon's page also has links to a proof of concept and in-depth discussion.

"Just a quick update on my displaylink (1.1.2 beta/10.5.7) driver problems.
I've had some luck getting it to work again. (he's using a mini monitor adapter, which needed the 1.1.2beta drivers for support.-Mike)

Keeping the installed 1.1.2beta drivers, I overwrote the actual DisplayLinkDriver file using the older version from the 1.1 release.

Using Pacifist to open the installers (you could use terminal) I replaced the installed 1.1.2beta driver found at:
/System/Library/Extensions/DisplayLinkDriver.kext/Contents/MacOS/DisplayLinkDriver
with the equivalent file from the 1.1 installer. The 1.1.2beta file was 71.1k, while the 1.1.1 was 71k.

So far so good, and better than waiting for an updated driver :)
(But I thought (per their driver download page) that only the 1.1.2 beta had mini monitor support (which you own - Nanovision UM710, 7" USB display link powered mini monitor).-Mike)
Basically I installed (again) the beta (1.1.2beta) drivers. Screen didn't work. But I took the raw driver file out of the 1.1 drivers, replaced the beta equivalent and it worked.

I can only assume it was failing with the 1.1 drivers not because the screens chipset wasn't supported but because it couldn't find appropriate device descriptions to fire the thing up with. Hence leaving all the beta support files behind added support for the mini monitors.

I guess in the beta drivers they added some more code which somehow got broken by the 10.5.7, and that the mini monitor support was not part of the core driver module, but added in via the other files involved in the install.
Confused but happy its all working again,
-Mike R."

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