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Ubuntu 23.10 USN-6661-1: OpenJDK 17 Moderate Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A series of vulnerability patches were deployed for OpenJDK 17 on various Ubuntu distributions on March 1, 2024.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 17.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 17.

Software Description:

- openjdk-17: Open Source Java implementation

Details:

Yi Yang discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 incorrectly

handled array accesses in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly

use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or

bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2024-20918)

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 did not

properly verify bytecode in certain situations. An attacker could

possibly use this issue to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

(CVE-2024-20919)

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 17 had an

optimization flaw when generating range check loop predicates. An attacker

could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute

arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2024-20921)

Yakov Shafranovich discovered that OpenJDK 17 incorrectly handled ZIP

archives that ha...

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Ubuntu Denial of Service OpenJDK Java sandbox

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.10:
   openjdk-17-jdk                  17.0.10+7-1~23.10.1
   openjdk-17-jdk-headless         17.0.10+7-1~23.10.1
   openjdk-17-jre                  17.0.10+7-1~23.10.1
   openjdk-17-jre-headless         17.0.10+7-1~23.10.1
   openjdk-17-jre-zero             17.0.10+7-1~23.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   openjdk-17-jdk                  17.0.10+7-1~22.04.1
   openjdk-17-jdk-headless         17.0.10+7-1~22.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre                  17.0.10+7-1~22.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre-headless         17.0.10+7-1~22.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre-zero             17.0.10+7-1~22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   openjdk-17-jdk                  17.0.10+7-1~20.04.1
   openjdk-17-jdk-headless         17.0.10+7-1~20.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre                  17.0.10+7-1~20.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre-headless         17.0.10+7-1~20.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre-zero             17.0.10+7-1~20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
   openjdk-17-jdk                  17.0.10+7-1~18.04.1
   openjdk-17-jdk-headless         17.0.10+7-1~18.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre                  17.0.10+7-1~18.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre-headless         17.0.10+7-1~18.04.1
   openjdk-17-jre-zero             17.0.10+7-1~18.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any Java
applications to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6661-1

CVE-2024-20918, CVE-2024-20919, CVE-2024-20921, CVE-2024-20932,

CVE-2024-20945, CVE-2024-20952

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6661-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Ubuntu Denial of Service OpenJDK Java sandbox

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-17/17.0.10+7-1~22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-17/17.0.10+7-1~20.04.1

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