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Gentoo: GLSA-201709-22 Normal: Remote Execution in Oracle JDK

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2017
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Recent vulnerabilities discovered in OpenJDK, JRE, and IcedTea pose serious risks of remote code execution; ensure you upgrade to the patched versions immediately.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle's JRE and JDK software suites, and IcedTea, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle’s JRE, JDK and IcedTea. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo remote code execution normal severity oracle jdk icedtea

Resolution

All Oracle JDK binary users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.141"
All Oracle JRE binary users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.141"
All IcedTea binary 7.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.11"
All IcedTea binary 3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.5.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-10053 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10053 [ 2 ] CVE-2017-10067 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10067 [ 3 ] CVE-2017-10074 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10074 [ 4 ] CVE-2017-10078 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10078 [ 5 ] CVE-2017-10081 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10081 [ 6 ] CVE-2017-10086 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10086 [ 7 ] CVE-2017-10087 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10087 [ 8 ] CVE-2017-10089 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10089 [ 9 ] CVE-2017-10090 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10090 [ 10 ] CVE-2017-10096 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10096 [ 11 ] CVE-2017-10101 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10101 [ 12 ] CVE-2017-10102 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10102 [ 13 ] CVE-2017-10105 http://n...

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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/201709-22
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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: Oracle JDK/JRE, IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 24, 2017
Bugs: #625602, #626088, #627682
ID: 201709-22

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo remote code execution normal severity oracle jdk icedtea

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle's JRE and JDK software suites, and IcedTea, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as in today’s demanding embedded environments. Java offers the rich user interface, performance, versatility, portability, and security that today’s applications require. 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/oracle-jdk-bin < 1.8.0.141 >= 1.8.0.141 2 dev-java/oracle-jre-bin < 1.8.0.141 >= 1.8.0.141 3 dev-java/icedtea-bin < 3.5.0:8 *>= 3.5.0:8 < 7.2.6.11:7 *>= 7.2.6.11:7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 affected packages

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or gain access to information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.