Adam Gowdiak patches Java 0-day that Oracle is too slow to fix

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Polish firm Security Explorations and its CEO Adam Gowdiak continue to be the a thorn in Oracle’s side by repeatedly questioning the giant’s decision not to issue an out-of-band patch for a critical Java flaw in Java SE (Standard Edition) 5, 6 and 7.

According to their research, the vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass the security sandbox in those three versions of Java, which are currently installed on nearly a billion of machines around the world.

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