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Debian: DSA-2311-1 Critical: OpenJDK Remote Access Problems

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2011
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The latest OpenJDK patch resolves multiple significant vulnerabilities. It's advised to update for enhanced safety and performance.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Java SE platform

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an
implementation of the Java SE platform. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2011-0862
Integer overflow errors in the JPEG and font parser allow
untrusted code (including applets) to elevate its privileges.

CVE-2011-0864
Hotspot, the just-in-time compiler in OpenJDK, mishandled
certain byte code instructions, allowing untrusted code
(including applets) to crash the virtual machine.

CVE-2011-0865
A race condition in signed object deserialization could
allow untrusted code to modify signed content, apparently
leaving its signature intact.

CVE-2011-0867
Untrusted code (including applets) could access information
about network interfaces which was not intended to be public.
(Note that the interface MAC address is still available to
untrusted code.)

CVE-2011-0868
A float-to-long conversion could overflow, , allowing
untrusted code (including applets) to crash the virtual
machine.

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Package: openjdk-6
CVE ID: CVE-2011-0862 CVE-2011-0864 CVE-2011-0865 CVE-2011-0867 CVE-2011-0868 CVE-2011-0869 CVE-2011-0871

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