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Re:Serious Chrome zero-day by kllrnohj on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:43PM (#19324584)
> I think you may be misunderstanding Java's history of serialization vulnerabilities.

Can you elaborate? https://github.com/GrrrDog/Java-Deserialization-Cheat-Sheet is just one example compendium. The number of vulnerabilities in this area is huge, across a wide range of libraries. It really is an entire category of exploits at this point, and it's still ongoing (eg, from last year: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-4939 )

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Re:Serious Chrome zero-day by staticassertion on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:48PM (#19324610)
You're right that it's a real footgun, the major issues that I'm aware of are in the native serializer, but yeah even the big libraries like Jackson have had issues.

I don't consider those on the same level as memory unsafety, personally, but it's not really a meaningful comparison because I'm not going to dig around for numbers and mitigation techniques.

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