DireNews Ep64 *URGENT* Minecraft Vulnerability

A SEVERE vulnerability has been detected in one of the java components used by Minecraft. In this video we talk about what can happen and how to protect yourself.

Official Mojang Communications:
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message--security-vulnerability-java-edition
https://twitter.com/slicedlime/status/1469150993527017483

MultiMC Announcement - If you use MultiMC you're protected, period.:
https://multimc.org/posts/log4j-remote-execution.html

Forge Version list -- If you're not sure if your launcher is protected - update to one of these versions ASAP if possible:
https://twitter.com/Direwolf20/status/1469356597185028106
Forge NEW INFO as of 12/11/2021:
https://gist.github.com/TheCurle/f15a6b63ceee3be58bff5e7a97c3a4e6

Creeperhost solution - Use this if you're using a launcher that hasn't been fixed, and can't update to a newer version of forge, OR if you're playing a modded instance Pre v1.12:
https://www.creeperhost.net/blog/mitigating-cve/
https://www.creeperhost.net/wiki/books/minecraft-java-edition/page/mitigating-cve-2021-44228-in-minecraft

Technical Details of this exploit:
https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/

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