Debian DLA-346-1 : openjdk-6 security update
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 87056
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
Description
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform. These vulnerabilities relate to execution of arbitrary code, breakouts of the Java sandbox, information disclosure and denial of service.
For Debian 6 'Squeeze', these problems have been fixed in openjdk-6 version 6b37-1.13.9-1~deb6u1.
We recommend you to upgrade your openjdk-6 packages.
Learn more about the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Project and how to apply these updates at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.