The first code listing is a simple example of persisting data to a serialized file using Java’s standard serialization. The generated file is called dustin.out.. LightweightPersister.java ...

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 ...

The proof-of-concept code released from these experiments was later used to confirm that over 70 other Java applications were also vulnerable to deserialization flaws.

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 ...

A Java serialization vulnerability disclosed more than a year ago figured to have a long shelf life. It lived in popular Java application development frameworks such as Apache Commons Collections ...

Reinhold says the Java team is currently working on dropping serialization support for good from the language's main body, but still provide developers with a plug-in system to support ...

Just like with Java apps, the flaw is in how .NET libraries handle serialized data during deserialization, allowing an attacker to sneak in code that gets executed on a target's machine.

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.

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 ...