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 ...

Serialization and deserialization of Hashtable. By Huw Evans September 12, 2000 JAVA PRIMER Using Java Object Serialization: A Few Pitfalls Huw Evans Listing 3. Serialization and deserialization of ...

Last month, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, said during a conference Q&A that one of Oracle's long-term goals is to change the way Java handles object serialization. In fact, he called the ...

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.

Java Deserialization Flaw Patched in 19 Products Among the most noteworthy aspects of the April CPU is the CVE-2016-1000031 Java flaw that is being patched across 19 Oracle products.

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 ...