Well, don't give Oracle too much credit -- or grief.
According to various articles (look them up, I didn't save the URLs),
they were notified of these vulnerabilities ~4 months ago.
Unfortunately several days ago serious attacks in the wild using these
vulnerabilities were discovered -- after which Oracle responded rather
quickly.
So one can give Oracle hell for not triaging these particular
vulnerabilities as needing redress far more quickly than 4 months or
laud them for fixing the issue quickly once a zero-day attack was found
in the wild. I'd say the reasonable response is somewhere in between
and that overall most companies make some mistakes in this area (just
look at some of the issue Microsoft has sat on....)
On 8/31/2012 10:16 AM, Williams, Nick wrote:
Just my smarmy reply to Tony's "when Sun owned Java" comment...
Used to be when Sun owned Java you got security updates months, not days, after
a vulnerability like this was discovered. :-)
Not saying I like Oracle (I loathe it most days); just making the point that
they were REALLY good about jumping on this issue so quickly.
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Anecito [mailto:adanec...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 10:02 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Java 6u35, 7u07 are available
Hi All,
I looked at the release notes and there was nearly nothing there. So
justification to update was impossible. Oracle needs to realize that releases
with just one security and one time clock change makes it impossible to explain
to anyone why we need to update an Enterprise.
Just my inital reaction. Used to be you got actual release notes when Sun owned
Java.
Regards,
-Tony
--- On Fri, 8/31/12, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com>
Subject: Java 6u35, 7u07 are available
To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 8:54 AM
Hi!
Just noting that Java 6u35, 7u07 were released by Oracle a day ago
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/
Those contain security fixes for issues exploitable when running Java from
within a web browser. (Those running it on server or standalone are said to be
unaffected).
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2012-4681-1835715.html
BTW, some media wrote that CVE-2012-4681 affects only Java 7, but not Java 6.
Oracle page, linked above, says the update includes fixes for two other
vulnerabilities and affects both Java 6 and Java 7.
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
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