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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-2312-1 Critical: OpenJDK 6 Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2014
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Enhance Ubuntu environments to rectify vulnerabilities found in OpenJDK 6, while safeguarding data privacy and integrity.
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-2014-2490, CVE-2014-4216, CVE-2014-4219, CVE-2014-4262)

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-2014-4209, CVE-2014-4244,

CVE-2014-4263)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data

integrity. (CVE-2014-4218, CVE-2014-4266)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive

data over the network. (CVE-2014-4252, CVE-2014-4268)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical information disclosure ubuntu openjdk

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm             6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  icedtea-6-jre-cacao             6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre                   6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-headless          6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-lib               6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.10.04.2
  openjdk-6-jre-zero              6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.10.04.2

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-2312-1

CVE-2014-2490, CVE-2014-4209, CVE-2014-4216, CVE-2014-4218,

CVE-2014-4219, CVE-2014-4244, CVE-2014-4252, CVE-2014-4262,

CVE-2014-4263, CVE-2014-4266, CVE-2014-4268

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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2312-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical information disclosure ubuntu openjdk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.12.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/6b32-1.13.4-4ubuntu0.10.04.2

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