Ubuntu Security Notice 2574-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. Alexander Cherepanov discovered that OpenJDK JRE was vulnerable to directory traversal issues with respect to handling jar files. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive data. Various other issues were also addressed.
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==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2574-1
April 21, 2015
openjdk-7 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.
Software Description:
- openjdk-7: Open Source Java implementation
Details:
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker
could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive
data over the network. (CVE-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469)
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that OpenJDK JRE was vulnerable to
directory traversal issues with respect to handling jar files. An
attacker could use this to expose sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0480)
Florian Weimer discovered that the RSA implementation in the JCE
component in OpenJDK JRE did not follow recommended practices for
implementing RSA signatures. An attacker could use this to expose
sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0478)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data
integrity. An attacker could exploit this expose sensitive data over
the network. (CVE-2015-0477)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2015-0488)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.10:
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-demo 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-doc 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-jdk 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-jre 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
openjdk-7-source 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-demo 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-doc 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-jdk 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-jre 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
openjdk-7-source 7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
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:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2574-1
CVE-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478,
CVE-2015-0480, CVE-2015-0488
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.10.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2