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HP-UX update for JRE / JDK


Secunia ID

SA38490

CVE-ID

CVE-2009-3867, CVE-2009-3868, CVE-2009-3869, CVE-2009-3871, CVE-2009-3872, CVE-2009-3873, CVE-2009-3874, CVE-2009-3875, CVE-2009-3876, CVE-2009-3877

Release Date

09 Feb 2010

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Security Bypass

This covers vulnerabilities or security issues where malicious users or people can bypass certain security mechanisms of the application.

The actual impact varies significantly depending on the design and purpose of the affected application.

Description

HP has issued an update for JRE / JDK. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA37231

Solution

Apply updated packages.
http://www.hp.com/go/java

-- HP-UX B.11.31 --

JDK and JRE v6.0.06 or subsequent
JDK and JRE v5.0.19 or subsequent
SDK and JRE v1.4.2.24 or subsequent

-- HP-UX B.11.23 --

JDK and JRE v6.0.06 or subsequent
JDK and JRE v5.0.19 or subsequent
SDK and JRE v1.4.2.24 or subsequent

-- HP-UX B.11.11 --

JDK and JRE v6.0.06 or subsequent
JDK and JRE v5.0.19 or subsequent
SDK and JRE v1.4.2.24 or subsequent

Original Advisory

HPSBUX02503 SSRT100019:
https://www13.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c01997760