Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-119
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-04 10:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:54 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
It was discovered that the Beans component in OpenJDK did not perform permission checks properly. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to use classes from restricted packages, allowing it to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-1682)
A hardening fix was applied to the AWT component in OpenJDK, removing functionality from the restricted SunToolkit class that was used in combination with other flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-0547)
Affected Packages:
java-1.6.0-openjdk
Issue Correction:
Run yum update java-1.6.0-openjdk to update your system.
i686:
java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.i686
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.i686
java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.i686
java-1.6.0-openjdk-src-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.i686
java-1.6.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.i686
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.i686
src:
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.src
x86_64:
java-1.6.0-openjdk-src-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-52.1.11.4.46.amzn1.x86_64