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Ubuntu 14.10 & 14.04 LTS: 2574-1 Critical OpenJDK 7 DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Update for OpenJDK 7 in Ubuntu 14.10 and 14.04 LTS released to tackle several severe vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized access to confidential information.
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-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469)

Alexander Cherepanov discovered that OpenJDK JRE was vulnerable to

directory traversal issues with respect to handling jar files. An

attacker could use this to expose sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0480)

Florian Weimer discovered that the RSA implementation in the JCE

component in OpenJDK JRE did not follow recommended practices for

implementing RSA signatures. An attacker could use this to expose

sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0478)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data

integrity. An attacker could exploit this expose sensitive data over

the network. (CVE-2015-0477)

A vulnerab...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu information disclosure data integrity OpenJDK

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-demo                  7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-doc                   7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-jdk                   7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
  openjdk-7-source                7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  icedtea-7-jre-jamvm             7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-demo                  7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-doc                   7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-jdk                   7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre                   7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre-headless          7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre-lib               7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-jre-zero              7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  openjdk-7-source                7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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-2574-1

CVE-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478,

CVE-2015-0480, CVE-2015-0488

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security advisory denial of service critical Ubuntu information disclosure data integrity OpenJDK

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2

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