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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: USN-1079-1 moderate: OpenJDK Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2011
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Investigate significant OpenJDK 6 security flaws impacting various Ubuntu versions and uncover corrective measures.
It was discovered that untrusted Java applets could create domain name resolution cache entries, allowing an attacker to manipulate name resolution within the JVM

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security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu name resolution OpenJDK Java applet

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openjdk-6 vulnerabilities

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu name resolution OpenJDK Java applet

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