Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.
Several information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. (CVE-2012-3216, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5072, CVE-2012-5075, CVE-2012-5077, CVE-2012-5085)
26 October 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.
Several information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. (CVE-2012-3216, CVE-2012-5069, CVE-2012-5072, CVE-2012-5075, CVE-2012-5077, CVE-2012-5085)
Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. (CVE-2012-4416, CVE-2012-5071)
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-2012-1531, CVE-2012-1532, CVE-2012-1533, CVE-2012-3143, CVE-2012-3159, CVE-2012-5068, CVE-2012-5083, CVE-2012-5084, CVE-2012-5086, CVE-2012-5089)
Information disclosure vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. These issues only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2012-5067, CVE-2012-5070)
Vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. (CVE-2012-5073, CVE-2012-5079)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and data integrity. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2012-5074)
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. These issues only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2012-5076, CVE-2012-5087, CVE-2012-5088)
A denial of service vulnerability was found in OpenJDK. (CVE-2012-5081)
Please see the following for more information: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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.