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janpeter1
Dec 16, 2021Luminary
RAIADare and Log4j vulnerability?
Hi I read in another post that OS6 does not contain software that is vulnerable to Log4j. But what about RAIDar app? I run macOS and I find that RAIDar is blocked. It is a month or so since...
schumaku
Dec 17, 2021Guru - Experienced User
janpeter1 wrote:
But what about RAIDar app?
No panic please.
janpeter1 wrote:
I run macOS and I find that RAIDar is blocked. ...
When I try start RAIDar I get infomration that i need the Java product JRE see enclosed screen shot.
The App is not blocked due to whatever known vulnerability out there. Much more, the JRE environment must be installed to run any Java appliation. The JRE must be maintained and kept up2date, . This won't happen automatically AFAIK.
janpeter1 wrote:
And due to Log4j I dare not install JRE at the moment and would like to have some advice.
The Apache Log4j is a larger and complex Java library environment used in the enterprise application ... for logging. The dead simple RAIDar application does not include the Log4j library environment, thus there is no Log4j relaed vulnerability.
Based on the same logic, one should not run a computer at all....
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