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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : OpenJDK vulnerabilities (USN-4337-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135967

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4337-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service while processing a specially crafted regular expression.
 (CVE-2020-2754, CVE-2020-2755)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled class descriptors and catching exceptions during object stream deserialization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service while processing a specially crafted serialized input. (CVE-2020-2756, CVE-2020-2757)

 Bengt Jonsson, Juraj Somorovsky, Kostis Sagonas, Paul Fiterau Brostean and Robert Merget discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certificate messages during TLS handshake. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certificate verification and insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected OpenJDK 11. (CVE-2020-2767)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled exceptions thrown by unmarshalKeyInfo() and unmarshalXMLSignature(). An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service while reading key info or XML signature data from XML input. (CVE-2020-2773)

 Peter Dettman discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled SSLParameters in setAlgorithmConstraints(). An attacker could possibly use this issue to override the defined systems security policy and lead to the use of weak crypto algorithms that should be disabled. This issue only affected OpenJDK 11. (CVE-2020-2778)

 Simone Bordet discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly re-used single null TLS sessions for new TLS connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-2781)

 Dan Amodio discovered that OpenJDK did not restrict the use of CR and LF characters in values for HTTP headers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information.
 (CVE-2020-2800)

 Nils Emmerich discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly checked boundaries or argument types. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass sandbox restrictions causing unspecified impact. (CVE-2020-2803, CVE-2020-2805)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled application data packets during TLS handshake. An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected OpenJDK 11. (CVE-2020-2816)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-2830)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4337-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135967

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4337-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 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-2020-2800

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-2805

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-demo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-source, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jdk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-demo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-jre, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-jdk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre-zero, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-jre-jamvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-jre-zero, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-8-jre-headless

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-2754, CVE-2020-2755, CVE-2020-2756, CVE-2020-2757, CVE-2020-2767, CVE-2020-2773, CVE-2020-2778, CVE-2020-2781, CVE-2020-2800, CVE-2020-2803, CVE-2020-2805, CVE-2020-2816, CVE-2020-2830

USN: 4337-1