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Debian: DSA-2356-1 Moderate Remote Risks in OpenJDK Security

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Calendar Grey December 1, 2011
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This notice highlights multiple security flaws found in OpenJDK, mitigating possible risks of unauthorized remote code execution.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Java platform: CVE-2011-3389

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an
implementation of the Java platform:

CVE-2011-3389
The TLS implementation does not guard properly against certain
chosen-plaintext attacks when block ciphers are used in CBC
mode.

CVE-2011-3521
The CORBA implementation contains a deserialization
vulnerability in the IIOP implementation, allowing untrusted
Java code (such as applets) to elevate its privileges.

CVE-2011-3544
The Java scripting engine lacks necessary security manager
checks, allowing untrusted Java code (such as applets) to
elevate its privileges.

CVE-2011-3547
The skip() method in java.io.InputStream uses a shared buffer,
allowing untrusted Java code (such as applets) to access data
that is skipped by other code.

CVE-2011-3548
The java.awt.AWTKeyStroke class contains a flaw which allows
untrusted Java code (such as applets) to elevate its
privileges.

CVE-2011-3551
The Java2D C code contains an integer overflow which results
in a heap-based buffer overflow, potential...

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Package: openjdk-6
CVE ID: CVE-2011-3389 CVE-2011-3521 CVE-2011-3544 CVE-2011-3547 CVE-2011-3548 CVE-2011-3551 CVE-2011-3552 CVE-2011-3553 CVE-2011-3554 CVE-2011-3556 CVE-2011-3557 CVE-2011-3560

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