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Ubuntu 12.10: USN-1619-1 Moderate: OpenJDK Information Disclosure

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2012
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Several vulnerabilities in OpenJDK addressed in recent Ubuntu updates, impacting different versions and posing risks of information leakage.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.

Software Description:

- openjdk-7: Open Source Java implementation

- openjdk-6: Open Source Java implementation

Details:

Several information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the

OpenJDK JRE. (CVE-2012-3216, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5072, CVE-2012-5075,

CVE-2012-5077, CVE-2012-5085)

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information

disclosure and data integrity. (CVE-2012-4416, CVE-2012-5071)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these

to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1531, CVE-2012-1532, CVE-2012-1533,

CVE-2012-3143, CVE-2012-3159, CVE-2012-5068, CVE-2012-5083, CVE-2012-5084,

CVE-2012-5086, CVE-2012-5089)

Information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE.

These issues only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2012-5067, CVE-2012-5070)

Vulnerabiliti...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
  icedtea-7-jre-cacao             7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u9-2.3.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~10.04.2

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any Java
applications or applets to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1619-1

CVE-2012-1531, CVE-2012-1532, CVE-2012-1533, CVE-2012-3143,

CVE-2012-3159, CVE-2012-3216, CVE-2012-4416, CVE-2012-5067,

CVE-2012-5068, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5070, CVE-2012-5071,

CVE-2012-5072, CVE-2012-5073, CVE-2012-5074, CVE-2012-5075,

CVE-2012-5076, CVE-2012-5077, CVE-2012-5079, CVE-2012-5081,

CVE-2012-5083, CVE-2012-5084, CVE-2012-5085, CVE-2012-5086,

CVE-2012-5087, CVE-2012-5088, CVE-2012-5089

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