• Java 0day infects songlyrics.com

    Posted on April 15, 2010 at 06:05 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    On April 9, Travis Ormandy wrote about a 0day hole in Java. It’s amazingly easy to exploit. Sun didn’t take him seriously:

    Sun has been informed about this vulnerability, however, they informed me they do not consider this vulnerability to be of high enough priority to break their quarterly patch cycle.

    For various reasons, I explained that I did did not agree, and intended to publish advice to temporarily disable the affected control until a solution is available.

    Now comes word that a very popular Web site, songlyrics.com, has been serving up ads that are infected with that specific 0day. The ads feature rogue antispyware applications from Russia.

    Thank you, Sun.

    UPDATE: Brian Krebs reports that there’s a new version of Java out. I suggest you wait and have it installed automatically: Ryan Naraine discovered that if he installed it manually, Sun oh-so-helpfully offered to install the Bing Toolbar – another piece of crapware from Microsoft – and the installer goes so far as to offer the Bing Toolbar by default.

    Open question: is Sun turning into the next Apple?

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