GLSA 201606-18: IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	06/27/2016
Bugs:	#578300, #578788, #581028, #581238
ID:	201606-18

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in IcedTea allowing remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability through various vectors.

Background

IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-java/icedtea-bin	< 7.2.6.6-r1	>= 7.2.6.6-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Various OpenJDK attack vectors in IcedTea, such as 2D, Corba, Hotspot, Libraries, and JAXP, exist which allows remote attackers to affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of vulnerable systems. Many of the vulnerabilities can only be exploited through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and java applets. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Remote attackers may execute arbitrary code, compromise information, or cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known work around at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo Security is no longer supporting dev-java/icedtea, as it has been officially dropped from the stable tree.

Users of the IcedTea 3.x binary package should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.0.1"

Users of the IcedTea 7.x binary package should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.6"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201606-18.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.