IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081.

The version of IBM Java installed on the remote host is prior to 8.0 < 8.0.5.30. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the IBM Security Update March 2019 advisory.

  - IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate     code injection and privilege elevation by local users. IBM X-Force ID: 152081. (CVE-2018-1890)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for java-1_8_0-ibm to version 8.0.5.30 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-2422: Fixed a memory disclosure in FileChannelImpl (bsc#1122293).

CVE-2018-11212: Fixed an issue in alloc_sarray function in jmemmgr.c (bsc#1122299).

CVE-2018-1890: Fixed a local privilege escalation via RPATHs (bsc#1128158).

CVE-2019-2449: Fixed a vulnerability which could allow remote atackers to delete arbitrary files (bsc#1122292).

More information:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10873332

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
160364	IBM Java 8.0 < 8.0.5.30	Nessus	Misc.	high
122889	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2019:0617-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
122808	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2019:0585-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2018-1890

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Tenable Plugins

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