USN-2827-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2827-1

3rd December, 2015

openjdk-6 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 6.

Software description

• openjdk-6 - Open Source Java implementation

Details

Multiple 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-2015-4805, CVE-2015-4835, CVE-2015-4843,
CVE-2015-4844, CVE-2015-4860, CVE-2015-4881, CVE-2015-4883)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit
this to expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2015-4806)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data
integrity. An attacker could exploit this expose sensitive data over
the network. (CVE-2015-4872)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related
to information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose
sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2015-4734, CVE-2015-4842,
CVE-2015-4903)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related
to availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2015-4803, CVE-2015-4893, CVE-2015-4911)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

icedtea-6-jre-cacao 6b37-1.13.9-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

icedtea-6-jre-jamvm 6b37-1.13.9-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre 6b37-1.13.9-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b37-1.13.9-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-zero 6b37-1.13.9-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b37-1.13.9-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

CVE-2015-4734, CVE-2015-4803, CVE-2015-4805, CVE-2015-4806, CVE-2015-4835, CVE-2015-4842, CVE-2015-4843, CVE-2015-4844, CVE-2015-4860, CVE-2015-4872, CVE-2015-4881, CVE-2015-4882, CVE-2015-4883, CVE-2015-4893, CVE-2015-4903, CVE-2015-4911