Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1769-1 openjdk-6 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
11 Apr 2009
Affected Packages:
openjdk-6
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2426, CVE-2009-0581, CVE-2009-0723, CVE-2009-0733, CVE-2009-0793, CVE-2009-1093, CVE-2009-1094, CVE-2009-1095, CVE-2009-1096, CVE-2009-1097, CVE-2009-1098, CVE-2009-1101.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Java SE platform.

  • CVE-2006-2426

    Creation of large, temporary fonts could use up available disk space, leading to a denial of service condition.

  • CVE-2009-0581 / CVE-2009-0723 / CVE-2009-0733 / CVE-2009-0793

    Several vulnerabilities existed in the embedded LittleCMS library, exploitable through crafted images: a memory leak, resulting in a denial of service condition (CVE-2009-0581), heap-based buffer overflows, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution (CVE-2009-0723, CVE-2009-0733), and a null-pointer dereference, leading to denial of service (CVE-2009-0793).

  • CVE-2009-1093

    The LDAP server implementation (in com.sun.jdni.ldap) did not properly close sockets if an error was encountered, leading to a denial-of-service condition.

  • CVE-2009-1094

    The LDAP client implementation (in com.sun.jdni.ldap) allowed malicious LDAP servers to execute arbitrary code on the client.

  • CVE-2009-1101

    The HTTP server implementation (sun.net.httpserver) contained an unspecified denial of service vulnerability.

  • CVE-2009-1095 / CVE-2009-1096 / CVE-2009-1097 / CVE-2009-1098

    Several issues in Java Web Start have been addressed. The Debian packages currently do not support Java Web Start, so these issues are not directly exploitable, but the relevant code has been updated nevertheless.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1+lenny2.

We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-6 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6_6b11-9.1+lenny2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6_6b11.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6_6b11-9.1+lenny2.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-doc_6b11-9.1+lenny2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-lib_6b11-9.1+lenny2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-source_6b11-9.1+lenny2_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_amd64.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-demo_6b11-9.1+lenny2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-dbg_6b11-9.1+lenny2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b11-9.1+lenny2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jre_6b11-9.1+lenny2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openjdk-6/openjdk-6-jdk_6b11-9.1+lenny2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.