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Gentoo: GLSA-201701-43 Moderate: IcedTea Remote Threats Description

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Gentoo Linux Security Notice GLSA 202301-12 covers vulnerabilities in OpenJDK that could be exploited by remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to affected systems.
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 Gentoo remote attack integrity IcedTea availability

Resolution

All IcedTea-bin 7.x users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.8:7"
All IcedTea-bin 3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.2.0:8"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-3458 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3458 [ 2 ] CVE-2016-3485 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3485 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-3500 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3500 [ 4 ] CVE-2016-3508 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3508 [ 5 ] CVE-2016-3550 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3550 [ 6 ] CVE-2016-3587 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3587 [ 7 ] CVE-2016-3598 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3598 [ 8 ] CVE-2016-3606 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3606 [ 9 ] CVE-2016-3610 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3610 [ 10 ] CVE-2016-5542 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5542 [ 11 ] CVE-2016-5554 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5554 [ 12 ] CVE-2016-5568 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5568 [ 13 ] CVE-2016-5573 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-43
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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: January 19, 2017
Bugs: #590590, #600224
ID: 201701-43

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote attack integrity IcedTea availability

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 < 7.2.6.8 >= 3.2.0 >= 7.2.6.8

Impact

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

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.