N/A - USN-971-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-971-1	First vendor Publication	2010-08-16
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2010-08-16
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	Not Defined	Attack Range	Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score	Not Defined	Attack Complexity	Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score	Not Defined	Authentication	Not Defined
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.04:
icedtea6-plugin 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1~9.04.1

Ubuntu 9.10:
icedtea6-plugin 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1~9.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
icedtea6-plugin 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1

After a standard system update you need to restart any Java applications to make all the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that the IcedTea plugin did not correctly check certain accesses. If a user or automated system were tricked into running a specially crafted Java applet, a remote attacker could read arbitrary files with user privileges, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2548, CVE-2010-2783)