[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 security updates: help needed with Java and Tomcat

Sat Apr 14 20:41:42 CEST 2012

Can anyone help with these?  One of the tomcat6 packages is installed on almost every system as it's required by LibreOffice.
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+David Walser wrote:
+> The only remaining known security issues with Mageia 2 packages concern Java and Tomcat, and some expertise is needed to help close these.
+> 
+> The vulnerable Java package is java-1.7.0-openjdk.  It is vulnerable to a large set of CVEs which have also affected java 1.6.0, and I 
+believe are the same ones behind the recent compromise of Mac OS X machines as well as the Windows version of Firefox automatically disabling 
+vulnerable Java plugins.  We have just issued an update for this in Mageia 1 today, and java-1.6.0-openjdk in Cauldron was fixed on Sunday.  
+Since our Java plugin uses 1.6.0 instead of 1.7.0, our exposure to these vulnerabilities is reduced, but they are still there.  At the very 
+least the "IcedTea" in the package needs updated to either 2.0.1 or 2.1.  The "OpenJDK" in the package may need to be updated as well.  D 
+Morgan has done a really nice job maintaining this package, but has been really busy lately, so if anyone else has the ability to assist with 
+it, it would be good.
+> Bugzilla reference:  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5300
+> 
+> Our tomcat5 and tomcat6 packages are unmaintained and have not been updated since before Mageia 1, and contain several vulnerabilities 
+(both in Mageia 1 and Cauldron) that have been fixed by other distros.  There are so many CVEs I can't say off the top of my head how many, 
+and I'm not even sure I found them all.  Hopefully just updating these packages to the newest versions would be enough to close them all.
+> Bugzilla references:
+> tomcat5 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3099
+> tomcat6 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5261
+> 
+> Finally, there are a number of security issues affecting Firefox in Mageia 1, and some help may be needed closing this one.  All but one of 
+the bugs blocking this update have recently been fixed.  There are apparently some issues with Eclipse that still need to be solved, as well 
+as a couple other packages that may still need to be rebuilt.  An update candidate for Firefox itself already exists in updates_testing.
+> Bugzilla reference:  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4405
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