Oracle Promises Patches Next Week For 36 Exploits In Latest Java 154
An anonymous reader writes "Oracle is posting patches for all its products next Tuesday, which include 36 exploits for Java alone and over 140 for all Oracle products currently supported, included over 80 that require no authentication to execute.These patches look to be critical for any administrator. Java 6 users who use equipment or programs that rely on older versions are SOL unless they sign up for a very expensive support contract, as these patches are for Java 7 only."
concerning is ... (Score:3, Interesting)
that of the 36 Java related bugs, "34 of them (are) exploitable remotely without authentication".
"Java 6 users who use equipment or programs that rely on older versions are SOL unless they sign up for a very expensive support contract, as these patches are for Java 7 only."
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"Oracle Java JDK and JRE, versions 5.0u55 and earlier, 6u65 and earlier, 7u45 and earlier"
-> Muhahahaha,...
Re:again? (Score:0, Interesting)
*Javascript.
Java applets are way nicer than Javascript "apps": they're easier to program, they have a decent set of libraries, they're more fluid, and they have a more consistent UI. The only problem here is that a dying Sun and then Oracle left Java to rot, while the hundreds of bugs found in DHTML+Javascript over the last decade have been fixed at a pace steady enough to please people.
You want to know why there's a reduction in PC sales? Because Google+Apple have won the war of turning the PC into a lowest common denominator web browsing platform, even while more native platform specific software - in the form of "apps" - has been written than ever before, just not for Windows. Even Oracle doesn't seem to like the idea of Java on the desktop, hence meaningless changes to make it harder to run (e.g. requiring purchase of security certs now even though that does nothign to improve security). Because Oracle also wants you to keep everything in the "cloud", as that means someone somewhere purchasing its database engine.
Don't be fooled by the propaganda of salesmen.
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