Oracle has released Java SE 7 Update 21: eliminating of 45 vulnerabilities, and support for ARM
Oracle (Oracle Corporation) has unveiled the planned corrective release Java SE 7 Update 21, which fixed 42 security problems, as well as a portion of the improvements introduced to increase security. In addition, despite the decision to end the public release updates Java SE 6, as this branch is still actively used, published release Java SE 6 Update 45 with elimination of 25 vulnerabilities.
19 vulnerabilities assigned the highest level of risk (CVSS Score 10.0), implying the possibility of going beyond an isolated virtual machine environment and the initiation of the code in the system when processing a specially decorated content. All of the vulnerabilities present in the JRE. (more…)