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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2388-1 Critical: OpenJDK 7 DoS & Disclosure

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2014
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Serious flaws in OpenJDK 7 patched for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Vital improvements made to safeguard against unauthorized data access.
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:

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-2014-6457)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data

integrity. (CVE-2014-6502, CVE-2014-6512, CVE-2014-6519, CVE-2014-6527,

CVE-2014-6558)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive

data over the network. (CVE-2014-6504, CVE-2014-6511, CVE-2014-6517,

CVE-2014-6531)

Two 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-2014-6506, CVE-2014-651...

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u71-2.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u71-2.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u71-2.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u71-2.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u71-2.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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.

This update contains known regressions in the JamVM alternative Java
Virtual Machine and a future update will correct these issues. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/1382205 for details. We apologize for the
inconvenience.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2388-1

CVE-2014-6457, CVE-2014-6502, CVE-2014-6504, CVE-2014-6506,

CVE-2014-6511, CVE-2014-6512, CVE-2014-6517, CVE-2014-6519,

CVE-2014-6527, CVE-2014-6531, CVE-2014-6558, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/1382205

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security advisory critical DoS Ubuntu information disclosure data integrity OpenJDK

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u71-2.5.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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