The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem ...

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 ...

Removing serialization is one of the goals of Project Amber, Reinhold noted, which is the OpenJDK project that aims to "explore and incubate smaller, productivity-oriented Java language features that ...

But while Oracle is addressing the issue in Java, serialization also affects other programming environments like .NET, Ruby, and others, where the issue remains dormant.

In the security industry, we know that operating on untrusted inputs is a significant area of risk; and for penetration testers and attackers, a frequent source of high-impact issues. Serialization is ...

The Java SE 6 documentation on Object Serialization states the following about the uses of Java serialization: Serialization is used for lightweight persistence and for communication via sockets ...

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 ...

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

In programming languages, serialization is the process of converting data to a binary format for storing it or for sending it over the network. Deserialization is the reverse of that process.

After determining that the PayPal site was vulnerable to Java deserialization, Stepankin was able to exploit the flaw in order to execute arbitrary commands on its underlying Web server. “Moreover, I ...