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USN-1724-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

14 February 2013

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.

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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit these
to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1541, CVE-2012-3342, CVE-2013-0351,
CVE-2013-0419, CVE-2013-0423, CVE-2013-0446, CVE-2012-3213, CVE-2013-0425,
CVE-2013-0426, CVE-2013-0428, CVE-2013-0429, CVE-2013-0430, CVE-2013-0441,
CVE-2013-0442, CVE-2013-0445, CVE-2013-0450, CVE-2013-1475, CVE-2013-1476,
CVE-2013-1478, CVE-2013-1480)

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure. (CVE-2013-0409, CVE-2013-0434, CVE-2013-0438)

Several data integrity vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE.
(CVE-2013-0424, CVE-2013-0427, CVE-2013-0433, CVE-2013-1473)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to
information disclosure and data integrity. (CVE-2013-0432, CVE-2013-0435,
CVE-2013-0443)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability.
An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-0440)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to cause a
denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-0444)

A data integrity vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-0448)

An information disclosure vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-0449)

A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information
disclosure and data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to cause a
denial of service. This issue did not affect Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-1481)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 10.04

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.

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