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Ubuntu 15.10: USN-2818-1 Critical OpenJDK 7 Access Issue

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Calendar Grey November 25, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
OpenJDK 11 flaw rectified in Ubuntu distributions tackling severe permission problems. Confirm that system upgrades are executed.
A security issue was fixed in OpenJDK 7.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical access issue Ubuntu OpenJDK 7

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.10: icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 openjdk-7-jre 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 Ubuntu 15.04: icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 openjdk-7-jre 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 openjdk-7-jre 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 After a standard system update you need to restart any Java applications or applets to make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2015-4871

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November 25, 2015

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical access issue Ubuntu OpenJDK 7

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.15.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u91-2.6.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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