SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : java-11-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2021:1554-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149429

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for java-11-openjdk fixes the following issues :

Update to upstream tag jdk-11.0.11+9 (April 2021 CPU)

- CVE-2021-2163: Fixed incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (bsc#1185055)

- CVE-2021-2161: Fixed incorrect handling of partially quoted arguments in ProcessBuilder (bsc#1185056)

moved mozilla-nss dependency to java-11-openjdk-headless package, this is necessary to be able to do crypto with just java-11-openjdk-headless installed (bsc#1184606).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Manager Server 4.0 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Server-4.0-2021-1554=1

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Retail-Branch-Server-4.0-2021-1554=1

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.0-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-SP1-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP1-LTSS-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-BCL :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-SP1-BCL-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP3-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP2-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP1-LTSS-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP1-ESPOS-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-1554=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-1554=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-6-2021-1554=1

SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. I will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149429

File Name: suse_SU-2021-1554-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/12/2021

Updated: 1/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-2161

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-11-openjdk-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-2161, CVE-2021-2163

Detections

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