[josm-dev] Important Java security updates

Vincent Privat vincent.privat at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 19:28:18 BST 2012


Hi,

You may have seen the news about the 0-day critical Java security flaw [1]
[2].
Oracle has just released two security updates: 6u35 [3] and 7u7 [4].

As a significant number of mappers may have installed Java just for JOSM
use, shouldn't we say something about this in our MOTD ?

Vincent

[1]
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/critical-flaw-under-active-attack-prompts-calls-to-disable-java/
[2]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2012-4681-1835715.html
[3] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/6u35-relnotes-1835788.html
[4] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u7-relnotes-1835816.html


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