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Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : java-17-openjdk (ELSA-2025-0422)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214522

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2025-0422 advisory.

 [1:17.0.14.0.7-3.0.1]
 - Add Oracle vendor bug URL [Orabug: 34340155]

 [1:17.0.14.0.7-3]
 - Set rpmrelease to 3
 - Revert 'Require tzdata-java 2024b at runtime and for build'

 [1:17.0.14.0.7-2]
 - Do not pass nil to _jvmdir macro in cjc logic
 - Related: RHEL-73867

 [1:17.0.14.0.7-2]
 - Adapt to newest cjc to fix issue with rpm 4.17
 - Disable copy-jdk-configs for Flatpak builds
 - Remove cjc backward compatibility, to fix when both rpm 4.16 and 4.17 are in transaction
 - Resolves: rhbz#1953923
 - Resolves: RHEL-73867

 [1:17.0.14.0.7-2]
 - Update to jdk-17.0.14+7 (GA)
 - Add to .gitignore openjdk-17.0.14+7.tar.xz
 - Set buildver to 7
 - Set is_ga to 1
 - Update sources to openjdk-17.0.14+7.tar.xz
 - Require tzdata-java 2024b at runtime and for build
 - Sync java-17-openjdk-portable.specfile from openjdk-portable-rhel-8
 - Resolves: RHEL-73545
 - ** This tarball is embargoed until 2025-01-21 @ 1pm PT. **

 [1:17.0.14.0.1-0.2.ea]
 - Limit Java only tests to one architecture using jdk_test_arch
 - OPENJDK-3185

 [1:17.0.14.0.1-0.2.ea]
 - Update to jdk-17.0.14+1 (EA)
 - Add to .gitignore openjdk-17.0.14+1-ea.tar.xz
 - Set updatever to 14
 - Set buildver to 1
 - Set rpmrelease to 2
 - Set is_ga to 0
 - Update sources to openjdk-17.0.14+1-ea.tar.xz
 - Double percent signs consistently throughout comments
 - Set bundled giflib provide version to 5.2.2
 - Set bundled libpng provide version to 1.6.43
 - Warn about bundled provide version bumps and backouts in openjdk_news.sh
 - Remove 0001-8332174-Remove-2-unpaired-RLO-Unicode-characters-in-.patch file
 - Revert: Use component in EPEL and Fedora bug URLs

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-0422.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214522

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-0422.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-headless-slowdebug, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-demo-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-demo-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-src-fastdebug, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:9::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::codeready_builder, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-headless-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-devel-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-devel-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:java-17-openjdk-src-slowdebug

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/22/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21502