USN-5313-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

7 March 2022

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.

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It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled deserialization filters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, delete or obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21248)

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly read uncompressed TIFF files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service via
a specially crafted TIFF file. (CVE-2022-21277)

Jonni Passki discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified access
restrictions when performing URI resolution. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21282)

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions in the Pattern class implementation. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21283)

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled specially crafted Java
class files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2022-21291)

Markus Loewe discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated attributes
during object deserialization. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21293, CVE-2022-21294)

Dan Rabe discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified access permissions
in the JAXP component. An attacker could possibly use this to specially
craft an XML file to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21296)

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled XML entities. An
attacker could use this to specially craft an XML file that, when parsed,
would possibly cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21299)

Zhiqiang Zang discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled array indexes.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2022-21305)

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly read very long attributes
values in JAR file manifests. An attacker could possibly use this to
specially craft JAR file to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21340)

It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated input from serialized
streams. An attacker cold possibly use this issue to bypass sandbox
restrictions. (CVE-2022-21341)

Fabian Meumertzheim discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain
specially crafted BMP or TIFF files. An attacker could possibly use this
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21360, CVE-2022-21366)

It was discovered that an integer overflow could be triggered in OpenJDK
BMPImageReader class implementation. An attacker could possibly use this
to specially craft a BMP file to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-21365)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

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.

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