Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 6.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2014-6587, CVE-2014-6601, CVE-2015-0395, CVE-2015-0408, CVE-2015-0412)
27 January 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK 6.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2014-3566, CVE-2014-6587, CVE-2014-6601, CVE-2015-0395, CVE-2015-0408, CVE-2015-0412)
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2014-6585, CVE-2014-6591, CVE-2015-0400, CVE-2015-0407)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure and integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2014-6593)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-0383)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker could this exploit to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-0410)
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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