Sun has released a patch for a recently disclosed Java vulnerability.

"The patch comes less than a week after Sun told a Google researcher it did not consider the issue serious enough to warrant an out-of-cycle patch and less than a day after researchers spotted live exploits on a booby-trapped song lyrics Web site," writes ZDNet's Ryan Naraine.

"The release notes that accompanies the new Java 6 Update 20 [make] no mention of the public flaw disclosure or subsequent attacks but I’ve been able to confirm that the patch does cover the vulnerability released by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy," Naraine writes.

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