SECURITY

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 toinformation disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attackercould exploit these to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive dataover 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 informationdisclosure. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data overthe 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 [ more… ]