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USN-1079-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

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USN-1079-1: OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/17/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 23 and earlier, 5.0 Update 27 and earlier, and 1.4.2_29 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the February 2011 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from a downstream vendor that this issue is heap corruption related to the Verifier and "backward jsrs."

Solution(s)

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

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