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Ubuntu 12.04/10.04 LTS: USN-2191-1 Moderate: OpenJDK 6 Denial of Service

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Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-2312-1 addresses various vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 7, providing crucial updates for versions 14.04 and 16.04.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 6.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 6.

Software Description:

- openjdk-6: Open Source Java implementation

Details:

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-2014-0429, CVE-2014-0446, CVE-2014-0451, CVE-2014-0452,

CVE-2014-0456, CVE-2014-0457, CVE-2014-0458, CVE-2014-0461, CVE-2014-0462,

CVE-2014-2397, CVE-2014-2405, CVE-2014-2412, CVE-2014-2414, CVE-2014-2421,

CVE-2014-2423, CVE-2014-2427)

Two 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-2014-0453, CVE-2014-0460)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability.

An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2014-0459)

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm             6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.10.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.10.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.10.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.10.04.1
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.10.04.1

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-2191-1

CVE-2014-0429, CVE-2014-0446, CVE-2014-0451, CVE-2014-0452,

CVE-2014-0453, CVE-2014-0456, CVE-2014-0457, CVE-2014-0458,

CVE-2014-0459, CVE-2014-0460, CVE-2014-0461, CVE-2014-0462,

CVE-2014-1876, CVE-2014-2397, CVE-2014-2398, CVE-2014-2403,

CVE-2014-2405, CVE-2014-2412, CVE-2014-2414, CVE-2014-2421,

CVE-2014-2423, CVE-2014-2427

=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2191-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service information disclosure data integrity ubuntu openjdk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.12.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b31-1.13.3-1ubuntu1~0.10.04.1

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