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Ubuntu 17.10 USN-3473-1 Critical: OpenJDK 8 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2017
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Numerous vulnerabilities addressed in OpenJDK 8 for different Ubuntu distributions. Prompt upgrade and system reboot advised.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 8.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 8.

Software Description:

- openjdk-8: Open Source Java implementation

Details:

It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not

properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct

an untrusted Java application or applet to gain access to a smart card,

bypassing sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2017-10274)

Gaston Traberg discovered that the Serialization component of OpenJDK did

not properly limit the amount of memory allocated when performing

deserializations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service

(memory exhaustion). (CVE-2017-10281)

It was discovered that the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) component in

OpenJDK did not properly handle unreferenced objects. An attacker could use

this to specially construct an untrusted Java application or applet that

could escape sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2017-10285)

It was discovered that the HTTPUrlConnection classes in OpenJDK did not

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.10:
  openjdk-8-jdk                   8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2
  openjdk-8-jdk-headless          8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2
  openjdk-8-jre                   8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2
  openjdk-8-jre-headless          8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2
  openjdk-8-jre-zero              8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2

Ubuntu 17.04:
  openjdk-8-jdk                   8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
  openjdk-8-jdk-headless          8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre                   8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre-headless          8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre-zero              8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  openjdk-8-jdk                   8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  openjdk-8-jdk-headless          8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre                   8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre-headless          8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre-jamvm             8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  openjdk-8-jre-zero              8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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-3473-1

CVE-2017-10274, CVE-2017-10281, CVE-2017-10285, CVE-2017-10295,

CVE-2017-10345, CVE-2017-10346, CVE-2017-10347, CVE-2017-10348,

CVE-2017-10349, CVE-2017-10350, CVE-2017-10355, CVE-2017-10356,

CVE-2017-10357, CVE-2017-10388

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

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