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USN-1024-1: OpenJDK vulnerability

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USN-1024-1: OpenJDK vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/08/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

IcedTea 1.7.x before 1.7.6, 1.8.x before 1.8.3, and 1.9.x before 1.9.2, as based on OpenJDK 6, declares multiple sensitive variables as public, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information including (1) user.name, (2) user.home, and (3) java.home system properties, and other sensitive information such as installation directories.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-icedtea6-plugin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjdk-6-jdk
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjdk-6-jre
  • ubuntu-upgrade-openjdk-6-jre-headless

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