[PATCH] b38 Release and retro-active security patch review

[Andrew Hughes]

We have a new release of IcedTea (http://bitly.com/it11310) and a new OpenJDK
6 release, b38, to go with it. This is made from the current state of the OpenJDK 6
repositories plus backports of the new security fixes included in 7u95 & 8u71.

The tarballs are available here:

https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/download/openjdk-6-src-b38-20_jan_2016.tar.gz
https://java.net/projects/openjdk6/downloads/download/openjdk-6-src-b38-20_jan_2016.tar.xz

SHA256 checksums:

b74c2cf9087e05084c46c324b7d9c22d412fbb6e21beb6b92dee4345789257b9  openjdk-6-src-b38-20_jan_2016.tar.gz
ff88dbcbda6c3c7d80b7cbd28065a455cdb009de9874fcf9ff9ca8205d38a257  openjdk-6-src-b38-20_jan_2016.tar.xz

Changes since b38 (including both CPU fixes and upstreamed changes):

* Security fixes
  - S8059054, CVE-2016-0402: Better URL processing
  - S8130710, CVE-2016-0448: Better attributes processing
  - S8133962, CVE-2016-0466: More general limits
  - S8137060: JMX memory management improvements
  - S8139012: Better font substitutions
  - S8139017, CVE-2016-0483: More stable image decoding
  - S8140543, CVE-2016-0494: Arrange font actions
  - S8143185: Cleanup for handling proxies
  - S8143941, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8472: Update splashscreen displays
* Other changes
  - OJ69: Windows build broken after b37 changes [already in repo]
  - OJ70: Allow versions of ALSA >= 1.1.0
  - S6720721: CRL check with circular depency support needed
  - S6852744: PIT b61: PKI test suite fails because self signed certificates are being rejected [Tests only]
  - S7166570: JSSE certificate validation has started to fail for certificate chains
  - S7167988: PKIX CertPathBuilder in reverse mode doesn't work if more than one trust anchor is specified
  - S7171223: Building ExtensionSubtables.cpp should use -fno-strict-aliasing
  - S8068761: [TEST_BUG] java/nio/channels/ServerSocketChannel/AdaptServerSocket.java failed with SocketTimeoutException
  - S8074068: Cleanup in src/share/classes/sun/security/x509/
  - S8075773: jps running as root fails after the fix of JDK-8050807
  - S8081297: SSL Problem with Tomcat
  - S8134605: Partial rework of the fix for 8081297
  - S8135307: CompletionFailure thrown when calling FieldDoc.type, if the field's type is missing
  - S8138716: (tz) Support tzdata2015g
  - S8141213: [Parfait]Potentially blocking function GetArrayLength called in JNI critical region at line 239 of jdk/src/share/native/sun/awt/image/jpeg/jpegdecoder.c in function GET_ARRAYS
  - S8141287: Add MD5 to jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms - Take 2
  - S8142928: [TEST_BUG] sun/security/provider/certpath/ReverseBuilder/ReverseBuild.java 8u71 failure
  - S8144955: Wrong changes were pushed with 8143942
  - S8145551: Test failed with Crash for Improved font lookups
  - S8147466: Add -fno-strict-overflow to IndicRearrangementProcessor{,2}.cpp

Webrevs for the new changes:
 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/root/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/corba/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/jaxp/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/jaxws/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/hotspot/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/jdk/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/20160119/langtools/

Once approved, I'll push these to the OpenJDK 6 repository.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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