SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_7_1-ibm (SUSE-SU-2016:2347-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 93646

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

IBM Java 7.1 was updated to version 7.1-3.50 to fix the following security issues: CVE-2016-3485 CVE-2016-3511 CVE-2016-3598 Please see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/ for more information.

- Add hwkeytool binary for zSeries.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-1372=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2016-1372=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1372=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-1372=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=992537

https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3485/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3511/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3598/

http://www.nessus.org/u?f1ee0557

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 93646

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2347-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_7_1-ibm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_7_1-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_7_1-ibm-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_7_1-ibm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_7_1-ibm-jdbc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3485, CVE-2016-3511, CVE-2016-3598