Adam Gowdiak discovers critical Java vulnerability that puts 1 BILLION users at risk
Just as Oracle is ramping up for the September 30 start of JavaOne 2012 in San Francisco, researchers from the Polish firm Security Explorations disclosed yet another critical Java vulnerability that might “spoil the taste of Larry Ellison's morning…Java.”new critical Java 5, 6, 7 flaw puts 1 billion users at risk
If you disabled Java when the last zero-day exploit was spotted in the wild, then you might consider doing so again . . . or dumping Java altogether? According to Security Explorations researcher Adam Gowdiak, who sent the email to the Full Disclosure Seclist, this Java exploit affects “one billion users of Oracle Java SE software.”
Appalled to learn that Oracle/Java has another huge critical hole, I reached out to Adam Gowdiak in an email interview.