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USN-1052-1: OpenJDK vulnerability

26 January 2011

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that the JNLP SecurityManager in IcedTea for Java
OpenJDK in some instances failed to properly apply the intended
scurity policy in its checkPermission method. This could allow an
attacker execute code with privileges that should have been prevented.
(CVE-2010-4351)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-1055-1: icedtea6-plugin, openjdk-6b18, openjdk-6