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Debian 6: DSA-2981-1 Urgent: OpenJDK-7 Vulnerability Exploitation Dangers

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2014
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Critical patch released for OpenJDK addressing multiple security flaws, encompassing risks of remote code execution and denial of service threats.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code, breakouts of the Java sandbox,...
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Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an
implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in the execution
of arbitrary code, breakouts of the Java sandbox, information disclosure
or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 6b32-1.13.4-1~deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-6 packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: openjdk-6
CVE ID: CVE-2014-2490 CVE-2014-4209 CVE-2014-4216 CVE-2014-4218

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