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by Steve Beattie
Changelog
openjdk-7 (7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.12.04.3) precise-security; urgency=medium
* Backport to 12.04
openjdk-7 (7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.14.04.3) trusty-security; urgency=medium
* Security fixes from 8u121:
- S8167104, CVE-2017-3289: Custom class constructor code can bypass the
required call to super.init allowing for uninitialized objects to be
created.
- S8164143, CVE-2017-3260: It is possible to corrupt memory by calling
dispose() on a CMenuComponentmultiple times.
- S8168714, CVE-2016-5546: ECDSA will accept signatures that have various
extraneous bytes added to them whereas the signature is supposed to be
unique.
- S8166988, CVE-2017-3253: The PNG specification allows the [iz}Txt
sections to be 2^32-1 bytes long so these should not be uncompressed
unless the user explicitly requests it.
- S8168728, CVE-2016-5548: DSA signing exhibits a timing bias that may
leak information about k.
- S8161743, CVE-2017-3252: LdapLoginModule incorrectly tries to
deserialize responses from an LDAP server when an LDAP context is
expected.
- S8167223, CVE-2016-5552: Parsing of URLs can be inconsistent with how
users or external applications would interpret them leading to possible
security issues.
- S8168705, CVE-2016-5547: A value from an InputStream is read directly
into the size argument of a new byte[] without validation.
- S8164147, CVE-2017-3261: An integer overflow exists in
SocketOutputStream which can lead to memorydisclosure.
- S8151934, CVE-2017-3231: Under some circumstances URLClassLoader will
dispatch HTTP GET requests where the invoker does not have permission.
- S8165071, CVE-2016-2183: 3DES can be exploited for block collisions when
long running sessions are allowed.
- S8165344, CVE-2017-3272: A protected field can be leveraged into type
confusion.
- S8156802, CVE-2017-3241: RMI deserialization should limit the types
deserialized to prevent attacks that could escape the sandbox.
-- Tiago Stürmer Daitx <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:56:10 +0000