1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1724-1

USN-1724-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Publication date

14 February 2013

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.

Releases

Packages

Details

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1541, CVE-2012-3342, CVE-2013-0351,
CVE-2013-0419, CVE-2013-0423, CVE-2013-0446, CVE-2012-3213, CVE-2013-0425,
CVE-2013-0426, CVE-2013-0428, CVE-2013-0429, CVE-2013-0430, CVE-2013-0441,
CVE-2013-0442, CVE-2013-0445,

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1541, CVE-2012-3342, CVE-2013-0351,
CVE-2013-0419, CVE-2013-0423, CVE-2013-0446, CVE-2012-3213, CVE-2013-0425,
CVE-2013-0426, CVE-2013-0428, CVE-2013-0429, CVE-2013-0430, CVE-2013-0441,
CVE-2013-0442, CVE-2013-0445, CVE-2013-0450, CVE-2013-1475, CVE-2013-1476,
CVE-2013-1478, CVE-2013-1480)

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure. (CVE-2013-0409, CVE-2013-0434, CVE-2013-0438)

Several data integrity vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE.
(CVE-2013-0424, CVE-2013-0427, CVE-2013-0433, CVE-2013-1473)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure and data integrity. (CVE-2013-0432, CVE-2013-0435,
CVE-2013-0443)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability.
An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-0440)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-0444)

A data integrity vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-0448)

An information disclosure vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-0449)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to cause a
denial of service. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-1481)

Update instructions

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.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
12.10 quantal openjdk-7-jre-lib –  7u13-2.3.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
openjdk-7-jre-zero –  7u13-2.3.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm –  7u13-2.3.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
openjdk-7-jre-headless –  7u13-2.3.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
openjdk-7-jre –  7u13-2.3.6-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
12.04 precise icedtea-6-jre-cacao –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.12.04.2
icedtea-6-jre-jamvm –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-headless –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-zero –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-lib –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.12.04.2
11.10 oneiric icedtea-6-jre-cacao –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.11.10.2
icedtea-6-jre-jamvm –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.11.10.2
openjdk-6-jre –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.11.10.2
openjdk-6-jre-headless –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.11.10.2
openjdk-6-jre-zero –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.11.10.2
openjdk-6-jre-lib –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.11.10.2
10.04 lucid openjdk-6-jre-headless –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.10.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-lib –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.10.04.2
icedtea-6-jre-cacao –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.10.04.2
openjdk-6-jre –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.10.04.2
openjdk-6-jre-zero –  6b27-1.12.1-2ubuntu0.10.04.2

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