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by rschildmeijer 5604 days ago
the famous floating point glitch seems to fixed
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nbpoole 5604 days ago
They've had that available for a week:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

This fixes a number of other vulnerabilities:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb...

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pasbesoin 5604 days ago
Also, as I understand it from another story, 6u24 doesn't break the update mechanism, while the FP bug patch does/did.

Ah, here's the mention, in the ReadMe link located in your first linked document:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/fpupdater-tool...

The FPUpdater tool is not intended for use on systems managed through auto-update as this will disable future auto-updates. We recommend that you wait until the next Critical Patch Update (CPU) when you can update your installation by going to http://java.com/latest .

(Whether you want auto-update is, I guess, a separate question, though not an insignificant one.)

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