RHEL 9 : java-17-openjdk (RHSA-2022:1729)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164866

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-17-openjdk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1729 advisory.

The java-17-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 17 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 17 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

* OpenJDK: Improper ECDSA signature verification (Libraries, 8277233) (CVE-2022-21449)

* OpenJDK: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008) (CVE-2022-21476)

* OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504) (CVE-2022-21426)

* OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672) (CVE-2022-21434)

* OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151) (CVE-2022-21443)

* OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972) (CVE-2022-21496)

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-17-openjdk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:1729.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164866

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1729.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/8/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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: Important

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-2022-21496

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21476

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-src-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel-slowdebug, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-javadoc-zip, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-src-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods

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: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/17/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21426, CVE-2022-21434, CVE-2022-21443, CVE-2022-21449, CVE-2022-21476, CVE-2022-21496

CWE: 1173, 179, 347, 470, 770

RHSA: 2022:1729

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