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Ubuntu 12.10 USN-1806-1 Critical: OpenJDK 7 Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2013
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Investigate the security notice regarding vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7 on Ubuntu and discover strategies to safeguard your system.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

Software Description:

- openjdk-7: Open Source Java implementation

Details:

Ben Murphy discovered a vulnerability in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this

to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-0401)

James Forshaw discovered a vulnerability in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could

exploit this to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-1488)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could

exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over

the network. (CVE-2013-1518, CVE-2013-1537, CVE-2013-1557, CVE-2013-1569,

CVE-2013-2383, CVE-2013-2384, CVE-2013-2420, CVE-2013-2421, CVE-2013-2422,

CVE-2013-2426, CVE-2013-2429, CVE-2013-2430, CVE-2013-2431, CVE-2013-2436)

Two vulnerabi...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu information disclosure data integrity OpenJDK

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

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-1806-1

CVE-2013-0401, CVE-2013-1488, CVE-2013-1518, CVE-2013-1537,

CVE-2013-1557, CVE-2013-1558, CVE-2013-1569, CVE-2013-2383,

CVE-2013-2384, CVE-2013-2415, CVE-2013-2417, CVE-2013-2419,

CVE-2013-2420, CVE-2013-2421, CVE-2013-2422, CVE-2013-2423,

CVE-2013-2424, CVE-2013-2426, CVE-2013-2429, CVE-2013-2430,

CVE-2013-2431, CVE-2013-2436

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu information disclosure data integrity OpenJDK

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.10.1

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