Mark-of-the-Beast security bug --- community collaboration?

[Jan Burse]

Tom Marble schrieb:
> All:
>
> Normally security issues would not be raised to the level
> of the 'discuss' list, but in the interest of getting
> as many 'eyes on the bug' such that the entire community
> can find and patch OpenJDK 6 quickly I respectfully
> would like to call everyone's attention to:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/07/java_denial_of_service_bug/
>
> It would be great if we could find this and patch
> OpenJDK 6 deployments ASAP.
>
> --Tom
>

Some interesting discussion happened here:
http://www.exploringbinary.com/a-closer-look-at-the-java-2-2250738585072012e-308-bug/