An In-Depth Study of More Than Ten Years of Java Exploitation
Philipp Holzinger, Stefan Triller, Alexandre Bartel, Eric Bodden · 2016
When created, the Java platform was among the first runtimes designed with security in mind. Yet, numerous Java versions were shown to contain far-reaching vulnerabilities, permitting denial-of-service attacks or even worse allowing intruders to bypass the runtime's sandbox mechanisms, opening the host system up to many kinds of further attacks.