Much to their credit, Oracle has released a patch for Java that fixes a recently-discovered security hole in Java .
CERT confirms that the new patch does indeed resolve the problem . All Java users – and that’s you, unless you’re absolutely certain Java is disabled – should apply this update as soon as possible. This affects Windows, Linux and MacOS users.
This is a welcome reaction from Oracle. Until this patch was released, it was assumed that the hole would not be fixed until the next regular patch cycle in October 2012.
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