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UPDATES - October 14, 2014

Oct 14, 2014 8:47AM PDT
October 2014 Critical Patch Update Released

Part of the above announcement @ "The Oracle Software Security Assurance Blog" states:

' This Critical Patch Update also provides fixes for 25 new Java SE vulnerabilities. The highest reported CVSS Base Score for these Java SE vulnerabilities is 10.0. This score affects one Java SE vulnerability. Out of these 25 Java vulnerabilities, 20 affect client-only deployments of Java SE (and 2 of these vulnerabilities are browser-specific). 4 vulnerabilities affect client and server deployments of Java SE. One vulnerability affects client and server deployments of JSSE '

For additional details see the Release Notes below.

The update for Java SE 8 runtime (JRE) brings the update to Java 8 update 25
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Release Notes: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/8u-relnotes-2225394.html

The update for Java SE 7 runtime (JRE) brings the update to Java SE 7u71/72
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

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

To verify your version: http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp
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A good read (IMO) posted by Brian Krebs on July 15, 2014: Java Update: Patch It or Pitch It

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Mozilla Firefox v.33.0 Released
Oct 14, 2014 9:27AM PDT

Version 33.0, first offered to Release channel users on October 13, 2014

What's New:

New - OpenH264 support (sandboxed)
New Improved search experience through the location bar
New Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings
New Search suggestions on the Firefox Start (about:home) and new tab (about:newtab) pages
New Windows: OMTC enabled by default
New CSP (Content Security Policy) backend
New Support for connecting to HTTP proxy over HTTPS
New Improved reliability of the session restoration
New Azerbaijani [az] locale added
Changed - Proprietary window.crypto properties/functions removed
Changed - JSD (JavaScript Debugger Service) removed in favor of the Debugger interface
Fixed - Fix incomplete downloads being marked as complete by detecting broken HTTP1.1 transfers (237623)

Known Issues:

UNRESOLVED - PDF.js: With some images, wrong colors could show up. Affects a very small number of PDF
UNRESOLVED - Some certificate errors cannot be overridden (1042889)

Release Notes continued: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/33.0/releasenotes/

Downloads:
- Firefox 33.0 for Windows::
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

- Fully Localized Versions:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

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Google Chrome 38.0.2125.104 released
Oct 14, 2014 9:38AM PDT