Apple has released a pair of key Java software updates for Mac OS X, Java for Mac OS 10.6 Update 1 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6.

“Both include a number of security fixes for the cross-platform technology, with the Leopard update being the heftier of the two, weighing in at 122 MB,” writes Computerworld’s Dan Moren.

“Both fix a number of vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.0_15, including one that could allow an untrusted Java applet to obtain elevated privileges, with which it could potentially do nasty things,” Moren writes. “The Leopard update also mortars a number of chinks in Java 1.5.0_20 along the same lines.”

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