GLSA 201507-14: Oracle JRE/JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity:	normal
Title:	Oracle JRE/JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	07/10/2015
Bugs:	#537214
ID:	201507-14

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle JRE/JDK, allowing both local and remote attackers to compromise various Java components.

Background

The Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) provide the Oracle Java platform.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-java/oracle-jre-bin	< 1.8.0.31	>= 1.8.0.31	All supported architectures
dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin	< 1.8.0.31	>= 1.8.0.31	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle JRE/JDK. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

An context-dependent attacker may be able to influence the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Java applications/runtime.

Workaround

There is no workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Oracle JRE 8 users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.31
    

All Oracle JDK 8 users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.31

All Oracle JRE 7 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.7.0.76

All Oracle JDK 7 users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0.76

References

• CVE-2015-0421
• CVE-2014-3566
• CVE-2014-6549
• CVE-2014-6585
• CVE-2014-6587
• CVE-2014-6591
• CVE-2014-6593
• CVE-2014-6601
• CVE-2015-0383
• CVE-2015-0395
• CVE-2015-0400
• CVE-2015-0403
• CVE-2015-0406
• CVE-2015-0407
• CVE-2015-0408
• CVE-2015-0410
• CVE-2015-0412
• CVE-2015-0413

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201507-14.xml

Concerns?

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License

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