Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
CVE-2016-0636
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated tzdata packages that add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.
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24th March, 2016
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
OpenJDK could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it received
specially crafted input.
A vulnerability was discovered in the JRE related to information
disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit
these to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive data over the network,
or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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.
Google pushed out the latest version of Chrome Thursday afternoon, fixing five issues, four of them critical.
The results of a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International show that every fourth company risks losing access to business-critical systems, due to the lack of an anti-DDoS protection in place.