[An Nahar] Oracle on Monday was distributing a patch for Java software flaws deemed so dangerous that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that people should stop using it.
"Oracle recommends that this Security Alert be applied as soon as possible because these issues may be exploited 'in the wild' and some exploits are available in various hacking tools," Oracle's Eric Maurice said in a blog post.
The patch was crafted to fix two holes that hackers could slip through in Java 7 software used by web browsers to interact with websites.
"To be successfully exploited, an attacker needs to trick an unsuspecting user into browsing a malicious website," Maurice said.
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