USN-1619-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

26 October 2012

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.

Reduce your security exposure

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro

Releases

Packages

Details

Several information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the
OpenJDK JRE. (CVE-2012-3216, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5072, CVE-2012-5075,
CVE-2012-5077, CVE-2012-5085)

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure and data integrity. (CVE-2012-4416, CVE-2012-5071)

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-2012-1531, CVE-2012-1532, CVE-2012-1533,
CVE-2012-3143, CVE-2012-3159, CVE-2012-5068, CVE-2012-5083, CVE-2012-5084,
CVE-2012-5086, CVE-2012-5089)

Information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE.
These issues only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2012-5067, CVE-2012-5070)

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data
integrity. (CVE-2012-5073, CVE-2012-5079)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure and data integrity. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10.
(CVE-2012-5074)

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. These issues only affected Ubuntu 12.10.
(CVE-2012-5076, CVE-2012-5087, CVE-2012-5088)

A denial of service vulnerability was found in OpenJDK. (CVE-2012-5081)

Please see the following for more information:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html

Reduce your security exposure

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.04

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

Join the discussion

Need help with your security needs?

Ubuntu Pro provides up to ten-year security coverage for over 23,000 open-source packages within the Ubuntu Main and Universe repositories.

Talk to an expert to find out what would work best for you

Further reading