Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2574-1
21st April, 2015
openjdk-7 vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.
Software description
- openjdk-7
– Open Source Java implementation
Details
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-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469)
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that OpenJDK JRE was vulnerable to
directory traversal issues with respect to handling jar files. An
attacker could use this to expose sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0480)
Florian Weimer discovered that the RSA implementation in the JCE
component in OpenJDK JRE did not follow recommended practices for
implementing RSA signatures. An attacker could use this to expose
sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0478)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data
integrity. An attacker could exploit this expose sensitive data over
the network. (CVE-2015-0477)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2015-0488)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
openjdk-7-jre-zero
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-source
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-jre-lib
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-jdk
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-jre-headless
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-jre
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-doc
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
-
openjdk-7-demo
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
openjdk-7-jre-zero
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-source
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-jre-lib
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-jdk
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-jre-headless
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-jre
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-doc
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
-
openjdk-7-demo
7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
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.