While the Java and .NET deserialization issues were limited to third-party libraries, having deserialization issues impact Ruby itself greatly increases a hacker's attack surface.

This is not a problem specific to Java serialization, a specifc .NET formatter or any specific formats such as JSON, XML or Binary," researchers say.

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Oracle's chief architect says his company intends to remove serialization from Java -- eventually. Answering a question during a live-streamed session at the recent Devoxx UK 2018 conference called ...