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Oracle Critical Security Update Released - January 2015

Jan 22, 2015 5:28AM PST
January 2015 Critical Patch Update Released @ The Oracle Software Security Assurance Blog:

' This Critical Patch Update delivers 19 new security fixes for Oracle Java SE. The most severe of these vulnerabilities received a CVSS Base Score of 10.0. This score is reported for 4 distinct Java SE client-only vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-6601; CVE-2015-0412; CVE-2014-6549; and CVE-2015-040Cool. Out of these 19 vulnerabilities, 15 affect client-only installations, 2 affect client and server installations, and 2 affect JSSE installations.'

The new release brings Java SE 7 (JRE) to Java SE 7u75/76

Download:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1880261.html
https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Release Notes:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u-relnotes-515228.html

NOTE: See About the Java 7 Auto-Update to Java 8
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The new release brings Java SE 8 (JRE) to Java 8 update 31

Download:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html

Release Notes:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u31-relnotes-2389094.html

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