Serialization is particularly useful when you need to save the state of an object to disk, send it over a network or pass it between different parts of a program. Java employs its own binary ...

However, the issue didn't stop with Java. In 2017, HPE security researchers also discovered that many .NET libraries for supporting serialization and deserialization operations were also ...

Java object serialization is only half of the job. The other half is Java object deserializtion, which we accomplish with the FileInputStream and the ObjectInputStream. The first step to perform in ...

After a quick overview and installation instruction, I’ll show you how to use JSON-B to serialize and deserialize Java objects, arrays, and collections; how to customize serialization and ...

Java is not the only programming language affected by unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities. Microsoft .NET languages also support serialization, which means inadequately secured .NET ...

Deserialization is the reverse process. Therefore, dropping serialization support from Java cannot be achieved by simply removing the Serializable interface because this will clearly have a ...

And backwards compatibility will be a big issue. "Even if all the above issues are resolved, deserialization vulnerabilities are not going away," he wrote. "Java's native serialization is not the only ...

The vulnerability is part of a class of bugs that stem from Java object deserialization and which security researchers have warned about a year ago. In programming languages, serialization is the ...