USN-2963-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2963-1

4th May, 2016

openjdk-8 vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 8.

Software description

  • openjdk-8
    – Open Source Java implementation

Details

Multiple 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, expose sensitive data
over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0686,
CVE-2016-0687, CVE-2016-3427)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related
to information disclosure. An attacker could exploit this to expose
sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2016-0695, CVE-2016-3426)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability.
An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-3425)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
openjdk-8-jdk

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1
openjdk-8-jre-headless

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1
openjdk-8-jre

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1
openjdk-8-jdk-headless

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1
openjdk-8-source

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1
openjdk-8-jre-zero

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1
openjdk-8-jre-jamvm

8u91-b14-0ubuntu4~16.04.1

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.

References

CVE-2016-0686,

CVE-2016-0687,

CVE-2016-0695,

CVE-2016-3425,

CVE-2016-3426,

CVE-2016-3427

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