> Security-Assessment.com follows responsible disclosure > and promptly contacted Oracle after discovering > the issue. Oracle was contacted on August 1, > 2010.
My understanding is that Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security reported this back in April; and further, the feature was a part of reasonably well-documented functionality of Java pretty much ever since: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html "Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP addresses" This was a pretty horrible design, so it's good to see it gone, though. /mz
