Oracle has released a critical patch update for its Java products including the Java Development Kit and the Java Runtime Environment. According to the security advisory the cumulative update fixes a total of 20 security related issues across all Java based products. Java users can verify their computer system’s Java version on this page. Affected [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Security, Windows

Just read over at Mike’s (German) blog that Oracle released the final version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7.0 earlier today to the public. That’s five years after Java SE 6 has been released. The JRE is needed to execute Java applications on the local system and in the web browser. I use it [...]

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Critical Java vulnerabilities were discovered in the beginning of February which affected the Java Runtime Environment and Java Development Kit. The affected versions were JRE 6 Update 23 and earlier on all supported operating systems. Instead of releasing a security patch right away, Oracle decided to release a command line tool first to patch the [...]

Categories: Security

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 [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Security, Windows

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 [...]

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Oracle has released an update to the Java SDK and Java Runtime Environment raising the version of both to 6 Update 21. The official download site over at the Java website lists Java 6 Update 20 as the latest version even though update 21 has been released, this is likely going to change in the [...]

Categories: Security, Software

Today seems to be the day of the security patch. The Java Runtime Environment has received an update to JRE 6 Update 19 which fixes several security vulnerabilities. Users who have Java installed on their computer systems are encouraged to update to the latest version immediately to fix the security issues. The changelog lists all [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Operating Systems, Security, Windows

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 [...]

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JavaRa is a small application for Microsoft Windows that serves two purposes. The first is to check if a Java update is available and if that is the case download and install it on the computer. The second scans the system for previous versions of Java, if any old versions are found on the system [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows