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Debian: DSA-2421-1 Urgent Patch for OpenJDK Security Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2012
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Multiple security flaws identified in OpenJDK necessitate prompt measures to maintain system integrity via updates and patches.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform

Summary

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

CVE-2011-3377
The Iced Tea browser plugin included in the openjdk-6 package
does not properly enforce the Same Origin Policy on web content
served under a domain name which has a common suffix with the
required domain name.

CVE-2011-3563
The Java Sound component did not properly check for array
boundaries. A malicious input or an untrusted Java application
or applet could use this flaw to cause Java Virtual Machine to
crash or disclose portion of its memory.

CVE-2011-5035
The OpenJDK embedded web server did not guard against an
excessive number of a request parameters, leading to a denial
of service vulnerability involving hash collisions.

CVE-2012-0497
It was discovered that Java2D did not properly check graphics
rendering objects before passing them to the native renderer.
This could lead to JVM crash or Java sandbox bypass.

CVE-2012-0501
The ZIP central directory parser used by java...

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Package: openjdk-6
CVE ID: CVE-2011-3377 CVE-2011-3563 CVE-2011-5035 CVE-2012-0497

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