Mark-of-the-Beast security bug --- community collaboration?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 8 February 2011 11:01, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 10:59 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> > It would be great if we could find this and patch
>> > OpenJDK 6 deployments ASAP.
>>
>> There has been extensive discussion on the core-libs mailinglist, with a
>> patch and some historic digging to find where the issue came from.
>>
>> Short story, it was already found through the Free Software Jacks
>> testsuite in 2001 (!). http://sourceware.org/mauve/jacks.html
>> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/jacks/docs/tests.html?cvsroot=mauve#3.10.2-runtime
>> reported by the Jikes compiler hacker Eric Blake.
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4421494 The bug report even has a
>> suggested fix. Dmitry Nadezhin posted a patch in 2009, but unfortunately
>> that didn't make it in.
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2009-November/003153.html
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100119
>> It was rediscovered through the php issue a week ago.
>> http://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/
>> Andrew Haley almost immediate posted a new patch for it last week.
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2011-February/005795.html
>> Hopefully it will go into IcedTea6 ASAP according to Andrew Hughes.
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2011-February/005836.html
>> With possibly more security fixes following next week.
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html
>
> For those that cannot wait and need a fix right now Marc Schoenefeld of
> the Red Hat Security Response Team created a script that will create a
> jar that you can use with -Xbootclasspath/p:prevent_double_dos.jar to
> mitigate the DoS bug till there are full new security releases:
> https://code.google.com/p/javapharmacy/source/browse/trunk/scripts/harden_against_jre_dos.sh
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>

The security releases for IcedTea6 (1.7.9, 1.8.6, 1.9.6) are on the
server and in Mercurial.  I'm about to do a full announcement.  Oracle
decided to spring a 'surprise' release on us:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2010-4476-305811.html
so we'll push one out too.

496b615ccad2a950783b1a2f30a8657956f8c9d9bccb6ab9effc1164ab830792
icedtea6-1.7.9.tar.gz
d392c95e76b5bdf21fb4bce8fc5cdc530bdf5bda014cb96fa9cd3efdfdbeff87
icedtea6-1.8.6.tar.gz
100e61fbc3157b4839413951b0247f7ccabb0dcff6d037fbb372d5a13088adc2
icedtea6-1.9.6.tar.gz

-- 
Andrew :-)

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