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Which is a security risk in that the jre can't be updated without an update to your product. Granted the same applies to go since it statically links to its runtime.


Not really a security risk if you think of it like an embedded library in your software. A JRE vulnerability is then just like a vulnerability in the app itself and the vendor needs to update it.


The majority of JRE vulnerabilities are also not really relevant to a local app in the first place. They're sandbox vulnerabilities that let carefully crafted applets break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code. But regularly installed desktop/server software doesn't run in the applet sandbox, and is already assumed to be able to execute arbitrary code.




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