USN-923-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• openjdk-6 -

Details

Marsh Ray and Steve Dispensa discovered a flaw in the TLS and SSLv3
protocols. If an attacker could perform a machine-in-the-middle attack at the
start of a TLS connection, the attacker could inject arbitrary content
at the beginning of the user's session. (CVE-2009-3555)

It was discovered that Loader-constraint table, Policy/PolicyFile,
Inflater/Deflater, drag/drop access, and deserialization did not correctly
handle certain sensitive objects. If a user were tricked into running a
specially crafted applet, private information could be leaked to a remote
attacker, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-0082, CVE-2010-0084,
CVE-2010-0085, CVE-2010-0088, CVE-2010-0091, CVE-2010-0094)

It was discovered that AtomicReferenceArray, System.arraycopy,
InetAddress, and HashAttributeSet did not correctly handle certain
situations. If a remote attacker could trigger specific error conditions,
a Java application could crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2010-0092, CVE-2010-0093, CVE-2010-0095, CVE-2010-0845)

It was discovered that Pack200, CMM readMabCurveData, ImagingLib, and
the AWT library did not correctly check buffer lengths. If a user or
automated system were tricked into handling specially crafted JAR files or
images, a remote attacker could crash the Java application or possibly
gain user privileges (CVE-2010-0837, CVE-2010-0838, CVE-2010-0847,
CVE-2010-0848).

It was discovered that applets did not correctly handle certain trust
chains. If a user were tricked into running a specially crafted applet,
a remote attacker could possibly run untrusted code with user privileges.
(CVE-2010-0840)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• openjdk-6-jre - 6b16-1.6.1-3ubuntu3
• openjdk-6-jre-lib - 6b16-1.6.1-3ubuntu3

Ubuntu 9.04

• openjdk-6-jre - 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu13
• openjdk-6-jre-lib - 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu13

Ubuntu 8.10

• openjdk-6-jre - 6b12-0ubuntu6.7
• openjdk-6-jre-lib - 6b12-0ubuntu6.7

Ubuntu 8.04

• openjdk-6-jre - 6b11-2ubuntu2.2
• openjdk-6-jre-lib - 6b11-2ubuntu2.2

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart all Java applications
to effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-3555
• CVE-2010-0082
• CVE-2010-0084
• CVE-2010-0085
• CVE-2010-0088
• CVE-2010-0091
• CVE-2010-0092
• CVE-2010-0093
• CVE-2010-0094
• CVE-2010-0095
• CVE-2010-0837
• CVE-2010-0838
• CVE-2010-0840
• CVE-2010-0845
• CVE-2010-0847
• CVE-2010-0848

Related notices

• USN-1010-1: openjdk-6-jdk, openjdk-6, icedtea6-plugin, openjdk-6b18, openjdk-6-jre, openjdk-6-jre-headless
• USN-990-2: apache2.2-common, apache2-common, apache2
• USN-990-1: libssl0.9.8, openssl
• USN-860-1: apache2.2-common, apache2-common, apache2
• USN-927-4: nss, libnss3-1d
• USN-927-6: nss, libnss3-1d
• USN-927-1: nss, libnss3-1d