Ubuntu 23.04 : OpenJDK 20 vulnerabilities (USN-6272-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179340

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6272-1 advisory.

Motoyasu Saburi discovered that OpenJDK 20 incorrectly handled special characters in file name parameters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2023-22006)

Eirik Bjrsns discovered that OpenJDK 20 incorrectly handled certain ZIP archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-22036)

David Stancu discovered that OpenJDK 20 had a flaw in the AES cipher implementation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-22041)

Zhiqiang Zang discovered that OpenJDK 20 incorrectly handled array accesses when using the binary '%' operator. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-22044)

Zhiqiang Zang discovered that OpenJDK 20 incorrectly handled array accesses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-22045)

It was discovered that OpenJDK 20 incorrectly sanitized URIs strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-22049)

It was discovered that OpenJDK 20 incorrectly handled certain glyphs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-25193)

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-6272-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179340

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6272-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2023

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22041

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-jre, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-jdk, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-jre-zero, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-demo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-jdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-20-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: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22006, CVE-2023-22036, CVE-2023-22041, CVE-2023-22044, CVE-2023-22045, CVE-2023-22049, CVE-2023-25193

USN: 6272-1