Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 15.04 / 15.10 : openjdk-7 vulnerabilities (USN-2884-1) (SLOTH)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 88516
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity, and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive data over the network, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-0483, CVE-2016-0494)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0402)
It was discovered that OpenJDK 7 incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2015-7575)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure. An attacker could exploit this to expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2016-0448)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-0466).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.