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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-2124-2 Critical: OpenJDK 6 Stability Issues Found

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2014
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USN-2150-1 tackles a bug in OpenJDK 7 impacting various Ubuntu versions, enhancing performance and fixing potential vulnerabilities.
USN-2124-1 introduced a regression in OpenJDK 6.

Summary

USN-2124-1 introduced a regression in OpenJDK 6.

Software Description:

- openjdk-6: Open Source Java implementation

Details:

USN-2124-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 6. Due to an upstream

regression, memory was not properly zeroed under certain circumstances

which could lead to instability. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information

disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose

sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2014-0411)

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-2013-5878, CVE-2013-5907, CVE-2014-0373, CVE-2014-0422,

CVE-2014-0428)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related ...

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security advisory DoS Ubuntu information disclosure regression openjdk stability fix

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm             6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.2

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-2124-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2124-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/1295987

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS Ubuntu information disclosure regression openjdk stability fix

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.2

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