CVE-2013-2447

Published: 18 June 2013

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 21 and earlier, 6 Update 45 and earlier, and 5.0 Update 45 and earlier, and OpenJDK 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Networking. NOTE: the previous information is from the June 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue allows remote attackers to obtain a socket's local address via vectors involving inconsistencies between Socket.getLocalAddress and InetAddress.getLocalHost.

Status

Notes

in lucid+, NetX and the plugin moved to the icedtea-web package

sun-java6 is not redistributable, no longer in the archive and
no longer tracked
sun-java5 is EOL upstream and no longer tracked
as of 2013-06-19, upstream IcedTea updates are not available
updates break the icedtea-web plugin and it will need this fix:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-June/023745.html

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2447
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2013-1899847.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2013-1899847.html
• http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/06/19/imminent-icedtea-web-breakage/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1907-1
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1908-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian