Java fixes lobbed out, Spectre Solaris patches issued Flash! Ah-ahhh! WebEx pwned for all of us!
Oracle this week emitted its April security update, addressing a total of 254 security vulnerabilities across dozens of products. Among the more noteworthy patches is a fix for lingering Spectre-related vulnerabilities in Solaris systems – specifically, CVE-2017-5753, also known as Spectre variant 1. Oracle had mitigated most of the Spectre/Meltdown processor design bugs in its products back in January. This update applies further fixes for Solaris versions 10 and 11.3. Java was on the receivi...