RHEL 8 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2019:1816)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126942

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.8.0-openjdk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1816 advisory.

The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

* OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve (EC) cryptography (Security, 8208698) (CVE-2019-2745)

* OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed exceptions in deserialization (Utilities, 8212328) (CVE-2019-2762)

* OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in Collections (Utilities, 8213432) (CVE-2019-2769)

* OpenJDK: Missing URL format validation (Networking, 8221518) (CVE-2019-2816)

* OpenJDK: Missing array bounds check in crypto providers (JCE, 8223511) (CVE-2019-2842)

* OpenJDK: Insufficient restriction of privileges in AccessController (Security, 8216381) (CVE-2019-2786)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL java-1.8.0-openjdk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1816.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?178c54fe

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1816

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730056

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730099

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730110

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730255

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730411

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1730415

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126942

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1816.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-2816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-2745

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-2745, CVE-2019-2762, CVE-2019-2769, CVE-2019-2786, CVE-2019-2816, CVE-2019-2842

CWE: 119, 20, 385, 770

RHSA: 2019:1816