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Gentoo: 201606-18 Moderate: IcedTea Remote Access Threats Detected

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Calendar Grey June 28, 2016
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several weaknesses found in IcedTea facilitate unauthorized access, jeopardizing system security. Upgrade to more recent versions for safeguard.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in IcedTea allowing remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability through various vectors

Summary

Various OpenJDK attack vectors in IcedTea, such as 2D, Corba, Hotspot, Libraries, and JAXP, exist which allows remote attackers to affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of vulnerable systems. Many of the vulnerabilities can only be exploited through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and java applets. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update gentoo remote access arbitrary code system impact icedtea

Resolution

Gentoo Security is no longer supporting dev-java/icedtea, as it has been officially dropped from the stable tree. Users of the IcedTea 3.x binary package should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.0.1"
Users of the IcedTea 7.x binary package should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-0636 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0636 [ 2 ] CVE-2016-0636 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0636 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-0686 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0686 [ 4 ] CVE-2016-0687 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0687 [ 5 ] CVE-2016-0695 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-0695 [ 6 ] CVE-2016-3422 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3422 [ 7 ] CVE-2016-3425 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3425 [ 8 ] CVE-2016-3427 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3427 [ 9 ] CVE-2016-3443 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3443 [ 10 ] CVE-2016-3449 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3449

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-18
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: June 27, 2016
Bugs: #578300, #578788, #581028, #581238
ID: 201606-18

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Topics Covered

security advisory update gentoo remote access arbitrary code system impact icedtea

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in IcedTea allowing remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability through various vectors.

Background

IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-java/icedtea-bin < 7.2.6.6-r1 *>= 3.0.1 >= 7.2.6.6-r1

Impact

===== Remote attackers may execute arbitrary code, compromise information, or cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known work around at this time.

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