It feels like I’m patching computer systems all day long in the last two days. First the monthly Windows Update, then Adobe with its patches and now Oracle and Java. This is madness and unfortunately a necessary evil. Oracle has just released a security advisory that details a critical security vulnerability in the JDK and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Java Security Update Released
Oracle has just released an update for their Java platform, that bumps the version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the Java Development Kit (JDK) to 1.6 Update 22. The Update release notes list the full external version as 1.6.0_22-b04, and the external version as 6u22. It lists a total of 16 different bugs [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Java Security Update Released
Sun Microsystems have issued a Java update on several critical Java security vulnerabilities. The security vulnerabilities affect several JDK, JRE and SDK versions including JRE 6 Update 10 and earlier which is usually installed to enable Java support on a computer system. A total of 13 security vulnerabilities are fixed by the Java update. Attackers [...]