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Oracle issues emergency patch for Java on Windows
Reported by theregister.co.uk
Oracle’s fired off an out-of-cycle emergency Java patch to plug a during-installation vulnerability on Windows platforms.
Dubbed CVE-2016-0603, the bug is complex, in that an attacker would have to trick a user into visiting a compromised Website before installing Java 6, 7 or 8. However, a successful attack results in a “complete compromise” of the target.