Posts Tagged ‘Java’

This is the end…

Posted by spaquet on February 18, 2011  |   Comments Off

The future of Java looks pretty gloomy: removed from next version of OS X, overpassed by PHP and Rails on the Web and it is appearing as a vector for viruses and other hacks on safe thought systems such as Linux and OS X…

This fact is illustrated by Oracle fixes of this week where 21 security vulnerabilities were patched; 19 of which allow attackers to remotely install malicious software on end-user machines.

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When Java and PHP are sharing the beast bug…

Posted by spaquet on February 9, 2011  |   Comments Off

Oracle has squashed a decade-old bug in its Java programming framework that allows attackers to bring down sensitive servers by feeding them numerical values with large numbers of decimal places.

The vulnerability in the latest version of Java was disclosed last month. The bug, which stems from the difficulty of representing some floating-point numbers in the binary format, made it possible to carry out denial-of-service attacks when Java applications process the value 2.2250738585072012e-308.

The bug was first reported in 2001 to Sun Microsystems, which was at the time the official steward of the Java environment.

The vulnerability was reported again in 2009, but remained unfixed until now…

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