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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : OpenJDK vulnerabilities (USN-5313-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158683

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5313-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled deserialization filters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, delete or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21248)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly read uncompressed TIFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted TIFF file. (CVE-2022-21277)

 Jonni Passki discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified access restrictions when performing URI resolution. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21282)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain regular expressions in the Pattern class implementation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21283)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled specially crafted Java class files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21291)

 Markus Loewe discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated attributes during object deserialization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21293, CVE-2022-21294)

 Dan Rabe discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly verified access permissions in the JAXP component. An attacker could possibly use this to specially craft an XML file to obtain sensitive information.
 (CVE-2022-21296)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled XML entities. An attacker could use this to specially craft an XML file that, when parsed, would possibly cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21299)

 Zhiqiang Zang discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled array indexes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-21305)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly read very long attributes values in JAR file manifests. An attacker could possibly use this to specially craft JAR file to cause a denial of service.
 (CVE-2022-21340)

 It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly validated input from serialized streams. An attacker cold possibly use this issue to bypass sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2022-21341)

 Fabian Meumertzheim discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain specially crafted BMP or TIFF files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21360, CVE-2022-21366)

 It was discovered that an integer overflow could be triggered in OpenJDK BMPImageReader class implementation. An attacker could possibly use this to specially craft a BMP file to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-21365)

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-5313-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158683

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5313-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2022

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21305

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

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-17-demo, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17-jre, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jdk, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, 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-17-jre-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-11-jre-zero, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17-jdk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-17-jre-zero

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21248, CVE-2022-21277, CVE-2022-21282, CVE-2022-21283, CVE-2022-21291, CVE-2022-21293, CVE-2022-21294, CVE-2022-21296, CVE-2022-21299, CVE-2022-21305, CVE-2022-21340, CVE-2022-21341, CVE-2022-21360, CVE-2022-21365, CVE-2022-21366

IAVA: 2022-A-0031-S

USN: 5313-1