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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2319-1 Critical: OpenJDK 7 Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2014
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Important vulnerabilities addressed in OpenJDK 8 for Ubuntu, enhancing protection against data leaks and operational failures.
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, data integrity and availability. An attacker could

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

the network. (CVE-2014-2483, CVE-2014-2490, CVE-2014-4216, CVE-2014-4219,

CVE-2014-4223, 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)

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

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

(CVE-2014-4264)

Several vulnerabi...

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security advisory denial of service critical update instructions information exposure ubuntu OpenJDK

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u65-2.5.1-4ubuntu1~0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u65-2.5.1-4ubuntu1~0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u65-2.5.1-4ubuntu1~0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u65-2.5.1-4ubuntu1~0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u65-2.5.1-4ubuntu1~0.14.04.1

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-2319-1

CVE-2014-2483, CVE-2014-2490, CVE-2014-4209, CVE-2014-4216,

CVE-2014-4218, CVE-2014-4219, CVE-2014-4221, CVE-2014-4223,

CVE-2014-4244, CVE-2014-4252, CVE-2014-4262, CVE-2014-4263,

CVE-2014-4264, CVE-2014-4266, CVE-2014-4268

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical update instructions information exposure ubuntu OpenJDK

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u65-2.5.1-4ubuntu1~0.14.04.1

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