RHEL 8 : java-1.8.0-ibm (RHSA-2021:4089)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 154840

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4089 advisory.

IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR6-FP35.

Security Fix(es):

* OpenJDK: FTP PASV command response can cause FtpClient to connect to arbitrary host (Networking, 8258432) (CVE-2021-2341)

* OpenJDK: Incorrect verification of JAR files with multiple MANIFEST.MF files (Library, 8260967) (CVE-2021-2369)

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-ibm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:4089.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0255c716

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4089

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982874

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982879

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 154840

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-4089.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/2/2021

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-2369

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-2341, CVE-2021-2369

CWE: 200, 347

IAVA: 2021-A-0327-S

RHSA: 2021:4089