IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 7.0.0.0 through 7.0.10.55, 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.4.55, and 8.0.0.0 through 8.0.6.0 could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by DLL search order hijacking vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client. By placing a specially-crafted file in a compromised folder, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 172618.

The version of IBM Java installed on the remote host is prior to 8.0 < 8.0.6.5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the IBM Security Update January 2020 advisory.

  - IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 7.0.0.0 through 7.0.10.55, 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.4.55, and 8.0.0.0     through 8.0.6.0 could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused     by DLL search order hijacking vulnerability in Microsoft Windows client. By placing a specially-crafted     file in a compromised folder, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on     the system. IBM X-Force ID: 172618. (CVE-2019-4732)

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 fixes the following issues :

Java 8.0 was updated to Service Refresh 6 Fix Pack 5 (bsc#1162972, bsc#1160968)

CVE-2020-2583: Unlink Set of LinkedHashSets

CVE-2019-4732: Untrusted DLL search path vulnerability

CVE-2020-2593: Normalize normalization for all

CVE-2020-2604: Better serial filter handling

CVE-2020-2659: Enhance datagram socket support

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
160360	IBM Java 8.0 < 8.0.6.5	Nessus	Misc.	medium
134201	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2020:0528-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
134080	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2020:0466-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2019-4732

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

high