“By now you’ve heard about the latest, very serious problem with Oracle’s Java runtime,” Simon Phipps reports for InfoWorld. “You may also have heard that it could take a very long time to fix.”
“Here’s why: The flaw uncovered by security researchers last week devolves not to one issue, but to a series of issues, one knocking into the other like dominoes,” Phipps reports. “Oracle has fixed one of the dominos with a patch, but there are likely to be other ways to tip over the entire row.”
Much more in the full article here.
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