USN-2885-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2885-1

1st February, 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-2016-0483, CVE-2016-0494)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data
integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data
over the network or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0402)

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-2016-0448)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
availability. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2016-0466)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:: icedtea-6-jre-cacao

6b38-1.13.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1; icedtea-6-jre-jamvm

6b38-1.13.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1; openjdk-6-jre

6b38-1.13.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1; openjdk-6-jre-headless

6b38-1.13.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1; openjdk-6-jre-zero

6b38-1.13.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1; openjdk-6-jre-lib

6b38-1.13.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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.