USN-2964-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2964-1

4th May, 2016

openjdk-7 vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 7.

Software description

• openjdk-7 - 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, expose sensitive data over the network,
or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687,
CVE-2016-3427)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over
the network. (CVE-2016-0695)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability.
An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2016-3425)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:

openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

openjdk-7-source 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

openjdk-7-jdk 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

openjdk-7-jre 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

openjdk-7-jre-zero 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

openjdk-7-source 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

icedtea-7-jre-jamvm 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

openjdk-7-jre-lib 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

openjdk-7-jdk 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

openjdk-7-jre-headless 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

openjdk-7-jre 7u101-2.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687, CVE-2016-0695, CVE-2016-3425, CVE-2016-3427