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Critical 1 exploited CVE USN-2696-1 15 CVEs

openjdk-7 vulnerabilities

Published Jul 30, 2015 · Updated May 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Several 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 or expose sensitive
data over the network. (CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731,
CVE-2015-4732, CVE-2015-4733, CVE-2015-4760, CVE-2015-4748)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the cryptographic components
of the OpenJDK JRE. An attacker could exploit these to expose sensitive
data over the network. (CVE-2015-2601, CVE-2015-2808, CVE-2015-4000,
CVE-2015-2625, CVE-2015-2613)

As a security improvement, this update modifies OpenJDK behavior to
disable RC4 TLS/SSL cipher suites by default.

As a security improvement, this update modifies OpenJDK behavior to
reject DH key sizes below 768 bits by default, preventing a possible
downgrade attack.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related
to information disclosure. An attacker could exploit these to expose
sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2015-2621, CVE-2015-2632)

A vulnerability was discovered with how the JNDI component of the
OpenJDK JRE handles DNS resolutions. A remote attacker could exploit
this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-4749)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS openjdk-7 7u79-2.5.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 15

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2590
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2601
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2613
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2621
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2625
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2628
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2632
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2808
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4000
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4731
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4732
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4733
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4748
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4749
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4760