Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code, information disclosure or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 7u71-2.5.3-2~deb7u1. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 7u71-2.5.3-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 7u71-2.5.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-7 packages.

OpenJDK is a development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the Java programming language.

openjdk-7 on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3080.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25