USN-3366-2: OpenJDK 8 regression
USN-3366-2: OpenJDK 8 regression Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3366-2 31st July, 2017 openjdk-8 regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary USN 3366-1 introduced a regression in OpenJDK 8. Software description openjdk-8 – Open Source Java implementation Details USN-3366-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK 8. Unfortunately, thatupdate introduced a regression that caused some valid JAR files tofail validation. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the JPEGImageReader class in OpenJDK would incorrectly read unused image data. An attacker could use this to specially construct a jpeg image file that when opened by a Java application would cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-10053) It was discovered that the JAR verifier in OpenJDK did not properly handle archives containing files missing digests. An attacker [ more… ]