IcedTea: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in IcedTea allowing remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability through various vectors. 2016-06-27 2016-06-27 578300 578788 581028 581238 remote 7.2.6.6-r1 3.0.1 7.2.6.6-r1

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 Denial of Service.

There is no known work around at this time.

Gentoo Security is no longer supporting dev-java/icedtea, as it has been officially dropped from the stable tree.

Users of the IcedTea 3.x binary package should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-bin-3.0.1"

Users of the IcedTea 7.x binary package should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.6" CVE-2016-0636 CVE-2016-0636 CVE-2016-0686 CVE-2016-0687 CVE-2016-0695 CVE-2016-3422 CVE-2016-3425 CVE-2016-3427 CVE-2016-3443 CVE-2016-3449 b-man b-man