On 7 February 2011 21:48, Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, February 2, 2011 17:16, Andrew Haley wrote: >> The post on >> http://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/ > > This is hitting more and more media. e.g. > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/02/07/java_denial_of_service_bug/ > > Since it seems to be a pretty serious security/denial of service attack > maybe we could at least get the fix into IcedTea6 and warn the various > distros they should apply it asap for their users? > > Cheers, > > Mark > >
I'll add it tomorrow. I expect new IcedTea6 releases soon to coincide with the Oracle SSR; see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
