ALAS-2013-167

Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-167
Advisory Release Date: 2013-03-14 22:03 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 22:39 Pacific
Severity: Important
Issue Overview:

An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the 2D component handled certain sample model instances. A specially-crafted sample model instance could cause Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with virtual machine privileges. (CVE-2013-0809)

It was discovered that the 2D component did not properly reject certain malformed images. Specially-crafted raster parameters could cause Java Virtual Machine memory corruption and, possibly, lead to arbitrary code execution with virtual machine privileges. (CVE-2013-1493)


Affected Packages:

java-1.6.0-openjdk


Issue Correction:
Run yum update java-1.6.0-openjdk to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-src-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.i686
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.i686
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.i686
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.i686
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.i686
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.i686

src:
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.6.0-openjdk-src-1.6.0.0-57.1.11.9.52.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2013-0809, CVE-2013-1493

Mitre: CVE-2013-0809, CVE-2013-1493