USN-2124-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2124-1

27th February, 2014

openjdk-6 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 6.

Software description

• openjdk-6 - 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-2014-0411)

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-2013-5878, CVE-2013-5907, CVE-2014-0373, CVE-2014-0422,

CVE-2014-0428)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive

data over the network. (CVE-2013-5884, CVE-2014-0368)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to

availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2013-5896, CVE-2013-5910)

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data

integrity. (CVE-2014-0376, CVE-2014-0416)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information

disclosure and availability. An attacker could exploit this to expose

sensitive data over the network or cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2014-0423)

In addition to the above, USN-2033-1 fixed several vulnerabilities and bugs

in OpenJDK 6. This update introduced a regression which caused an exception

condition in javax.xml when instantiating encryption algorithms. This

update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

icedtea-6-jre-cacao 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1

icedtea-6-jre-jamvm 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-zero 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.1

icedtea-6-jre-cacao 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.1

openjdk-6-jre 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-zero 6b30-1.13.1-1ubuntu2~0.10.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.

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

CVE-2013-5878, CVE-2013-5884, CVE-2013-5896, CVE-2013-5907, CVE-2013-5910, CVE-2014-0368, CVE-2014-0373, CVE-2014-0376, CVE-2014-0411, CVE-2014-0416, CVE-2014-0422, CVE-2014-0423, CVE-2014-0428, LP: 1283828

via Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/1kqoviW