Oracle broke out of its regular four-month patching cycle on Thursday to release Java 7 Update 7, an emergency security update that addressed three vulnerabilities, including two that were being exploited by attackers to infect computers with malware since last week.
Java 7 Update 7 also patched a “security-in-depth issue” which, according to Oracle, was not directly exploitable, but could have been used to aggravate the impact of other vulnerabilities.
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