Removing serialization is one of the goals of Project Amber, an OpenJDK project that aims to "explore and incubate smaller, productivity-oriented Java language features that have been accepted as ...

The proof-of-concept code released from these experiments was later used to confirm that over 70 other Java applications were also vulnerable to deserialization flaws.

Serialization is the process of saving an object's state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

The first code listing is a simple example of persisting data to a serialized file using Java’s standard serialization. The generated file is called dustin.out. LightweightPersister.java ...

Peles said that Google has fixed the issue in Android 4.4, 5.0, 5.1, and M, and third-party SDKs had remedied the vulnerability either by adding the transient modifier, reworking their code to ...

Java Serialization Bug Crops Up At PayPal Author: Michael Mimoso January 28, 2016 9:04 am 2 minute read ...