USN-2972-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2972-1

10th May, 2016

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, 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 12.04 LTS:

icedtea-6-jre-cacao 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

icedtea-6-jre-jamvm 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jdk 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-source 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-zero 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b39-1.13.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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