USN-3062-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3062-1

16th August, 2016

openjdk-7 vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

Software description

  • openjdk-7
    – 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-2016-3598,
CVE-2016-3606, CVE-2016-3610)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data
integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data
over the network or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-3458)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related
to availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3508)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over
the network. (CVE-2016-3550)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
openjdk-7-jre-lib

7u111-2.6.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
openjdk-7-jre-zero

7u111-2.6.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm

7u111-2.6.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
openjdk-7-jre-headless

7u111-2.6.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
openjdk-7-jre

7u111-2.6.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart any Java
applications or applets to make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-3458,

CVE-2016-3500,

CVE-2016-3508,

CVE-2016-3550,

CVE-2016-3598,

CVE-2016-3606,

CVE-2016-3610

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