Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.
Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in OpenJDK was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the “Lucky Thirteen” issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. (CVE-2013-0169)
21 February 2013
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK.
Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in OpenJDK was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the “Lucky Thirteen” issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. (CVE-2013-0169)
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-2013-1484)
A data integrity vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2013-1485)
Two 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-2013-1486, CVE-2013-1487)
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.
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