To follow up on the re-release of Apple’s Java For Mac OSX 10.6 Update 16 and Java for OS X 2013-004 updates, which fixes a problem with the previous versions of the updates, there’s a need to identify which machines got the problematic version of Java. The problematic Java build is 1.6.0_51-b11-456-10M4508 and can be identified by running the following command:
/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6 -exec java -version
Update – June 24, 2013: On further examination, it looks like Apple used two different build numbers:
Mac OS X 10.6.x: 1.6.0_51-b11-456-10M4508
Mac OS X 10.7.x – 10.8.x: 1.6.0_51-b11-456-11M4508
To help Casper admins identify which Macs have 1.6.0_51-b11-456-10M4508 or 1.6.0_51-b11-456-11M4508 installed, I’ve posted the following Casper extension attribute to my GitHub repo:
This script uses the java -version command to check the Java build version. If Java builds 1.6.0_51-b11-456-10M4508 or 1.6.0_51-b11-456-11M4508 are detected, the script reports Installed. If neither 1.6.0_51-b11-456-10M4508 or 1.6.0_51-b11-456-11M4508 are installed on the Mac, the script reports Not Found.
For those interested, the script is available on my GitHub repo:
