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 for ...

Learn about serialization in Java with our comprehensive tutorial. We provide examples to help you understand how serialization works and how to use it. Serialization is a fundamental concept in Java ...

Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...

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Serializing and deserializing data is not a problem by itself, or when the source of the data is known to be safe. These operations become dangerous when an app works with user-supplied data. For the ...

Java provides a means to conveniently serialize data to maintain its integrity as it's sent over a network. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in the deserialization process if there aren't ...

A recent blog post by FoxGlove Security that described remotely executable exploits against several major middleware products including WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss has focused attention on what ...

Java’s Serializable interface provides an easy-to-use programming interface for converting between a runtime object and a byte stream. Serialization involves mapping a runtime object or an object ...