IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in IcedTea allowing remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability through various vectors. icedtea, java 2017-01-19 2017-01-19 590590 600224 remote 7.2.6.8 3.2.0 7.2.6.8

IcedTea’s aim is to provide OpenJDK in a form suitable for easy configuration, compilation and distribution with the primary goal of allowing inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions.

Various OpenJDK attack vectors in IcedTea, such as 2D, Corba, Hotspot, Libraries, and JAXP, exist which allows remote attackers to affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of vulnerable systems. Many of the vulnerabilities can only be exploited through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and java applets. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Remote attackers may execute arbitrary code, compromise information, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All IcedTea-bin 7.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.8:7"

All IcedTea-bin 3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.2.0:8" CVE-2016-3458 CVE-2016-3485 CVE-2016-3500 CVE-2016-3508 CVE-2016-3550 CVE-2016-3587 CVE-2016-3598 CVE-2016-3606 CVE-2016-3610 CVE-2016-5542 CVE-2016-5554 CVE-2016-5568 CVE-2016-5573 CVE-2016-5582 CVE-2016-5597 b-man b-man