Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 15.10 : openjdk-7 vulnerabilities (USN-2964-1)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 90918
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-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687, CVE-2016-3427)
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-2016-0695)
A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-3425).
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.