14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical announced on Febraury 24th, in a security notice, that a new OpenJDK 6 update for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 11.10, is now available.
Several OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities have been fixed: CVE-2011-5035, CVE-2011-3563, CVE-2012-0497, CVE-2012-0501, CVE-2012-0502, CVE-2012-0503, CVE-2012-0505, CVE-2012-0506, and CVE-2012-0507.
As usual, you can click on each one to see how it affects your system, or go here for in-depth descriptions.
Some of the problems include the following exploits: Java HttpServer class did not limit the number of headers read from a HTTP request, the Java Sound component did not properly check buffer boundaries, and the Java2D implementation does not properly check graphics rendering objects before passing them to the native renderer.
The vulnerabilities can be fixed if you upgrade your system now. To apply the update, run the Update Manager application.