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Ubuntu 13.10: USN-2089-1 High: OpenJDK 7 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2014
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2090-1 tackles vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7, mitigatin multitudes of critical threats.
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:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these

to expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2013-3829, CVE-2013-5783,

CVE-2013-5804, CVE-2014-0411)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2013-4002, CVE-2013-5803, CVE-2013-5823, CVE-2013-5825, CVE-2013-5896,

CVE-2013-5910)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data

integrity. (CVE-2013-5772, CVE-2013-5774, CVE-2013-5784, CVE-2013-5797,

CVE-2013-5820, CVE-2014-0376, CVE-2014-0416)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive

data over the net...

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu update instructions information disclosure OpenJDK 7

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

Ubuntu 13.04:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2

Ubuntu 12.10:
  icedtea-7-jre-cacao             7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2

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-2089-1

CVE-2013-3829, CVE-2013-4002, CVE-2013-5772, CVE-2013-5774,

CVE-2013-5778, CVE-2013-5780, CVE-2013-5782, CVE-2013-5783,

CVE-2013-5784, CVE-2013-5790, CVE-2013-5797, CVE-2013-5800,

CVE-2013-5802, CVE-2013-5803, CVE-2013-5804, CVE-2013-5805,

CVE-2013-5806, CVE-2013-5809, CVE-2013-5814, CVE-2013-5817,

CVE-2013-5820, CVE-2013-5823, CVE-2013-5825, CVE-2013-5829,

CVE-2013-5830, CVE-2013-5840, CVE-2013-5842, CVE-2013-5849,

CVE-2013-5850, CVE-2013-5851, CVE-2013-5878, CVE-2013-5884,

CVE-2013-5893, CVE-2013-5896, CVE-2013-5907, CVE-2013-5910,

CVE-2014-0368, CVE-2014-0373, CVE-2014-0376, CVE-2014-0408,

=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2089-1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu update instructions information disclosure OpenJDK 7

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2

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