openjdk-6 vulnerability

30 November 2010

openjdk-6 vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

Software Description

• openjdk-6

Details

It was discovered that certain system property information was being leaked, which could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.10

icedtea6-plugin - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1

openjdk-6-jdk - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1

openjdk-6-jre - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1

openjdk-6-jre-headless - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

icedtea6-plugin - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1

openjdk-6-jdk - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1

openjdk-6-jre - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1

openjdk-6-jre-headless - 6b20-1.9.2-0ubuntu1~10.04.1

Ubuntu 9.10

icedtea6-plugin - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~9.10.1

openjdk-6-jdk - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~9.10.1

openjdk-6-jre - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~9.10.1

openjdk-6-jre-headless - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~9.10.1

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

icedtea6-plugin - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~8.04.2

openjdk-6-jdk - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~8.04.2

openjdk-6-jre - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~8.04.2

openjdk-6-jre-headless - 6b18-1.8.3-0ubuntu1~8.04.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart any Java services, applications or applets to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-3860