Issued:
2011-02-17
Updated:
2011-02-17

RHSA-2011:0282 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: java-1.6.0-sun security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

The Sun 1.6.0 Java release includes the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and
the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime
Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further
information about these flaws can be found on the "Oracle Java SE and Java
for Business Critical Patch Update Advisory" page, listed in the References
section. (CVE-2010-4422, CVE-2010-4447, CVE-2010-4448, CVE-2010-4450,
CVE-2010-4451, CVE-2010-4452, CVE-2010-4454, CVE-2010-4462, CVE-2010-4463,
CVE-2010-4465, CVE-2010-4466, CVE-2010-4467, CVE-2010-4468, CVE-2010-4469,
CVE-2010-4470, CVE-2010-4471, CVE-2010-4472, CVE-2010-4473, CVE-2010-4475,
CVE-2010-4476)

All users of java-1.6.0-sun are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which resolve these issues. All running instances of Sun Java
must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4ES x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4ES i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4AS x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4AS i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 674336 - CVE-2010-4476 JDK Double.parseDouble Denial-Of-Service
  • BZ - 675942 - CVE-2010-4472 OpenJDK untrusted code allowed to replace DSIG/C14N implementation (6994263)
  • BZ - 675958 - CVE-2010-4469 OpenJDK Hotspot verifier heap corruption (6878713)
  • BZ - 675984 - CVE-2010-4465 OpenJDK Swing timer-based security manager bypass (6907662)
  • BZ - 676005 - CVE-2010-4470 OpenJDK JAXP untrusted component state manipulation (6927050)
  • BZ - 676019 - CVE-2010-4471 OpenJDK Java2D font-related system property leak (6985453)
  • BZ - 676023 - CVE-2010-4448 OpenJDK DNS cache poisoning by untrusted applets (6981922)
  • BZ - 676026 - CVE-2010-4450 OpenJDK Launcher incorrect processing of empty library path entries (6983554)
  • BZ - 677957 - CVE-2010-4475 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component
  • BZ - 677958 - CVE-2010-4473 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Sound component
  • BZ - 677959 - CVE-2010-4468 JDK unspecified vulnerability in JDBC component
  • BZ - 677960 - CVE-2010-4467 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component
  • BZ - 677961 - CVE-2010-4466 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component
  • BZ - 677963 - CVE-2010-4463 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component
  • BZ - 677966 - CVE-2010-4462 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Sound component
  • BZ - 677967 - CVE-2010-4454 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Sound component
  • BZ - 677968 - CVE-2010-4452 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component
  • BZ - 677969 - CVE-2010-4451 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Install component
  • BZ - 677970 - CVE-2010-4447 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component
  • BZ - 677971 - CVE-2010-4422 JDK unspecified vulnerability in Deployment component

CVEs

References

This erratum does not contain any packages.

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.