Fedora 16 : java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.1-2.0.2.fc16 (2011-15555)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 56800

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update brings OpenJDK7 u1 to Fedora. The following issues have been ad= dressed :

- Updated to IcedTea 2.0 tag in the IcedTea OpenJDK7 forest

- Added system timezone support

- Revamped version/release naming scheme to make it proper

- Security fixes

- S7000600, CVE-2011-3547: InputStream skip() information leak

- S7019773, CVE-2011-3548: mutable static AWTKeyStroke.ctor

- S7023640, CVE-2011-3551: Java2D TransformHelper integer overflow

- S7032417, CVE-2011-3552: excessive default UDP socket limit under Secur= ityManager

- S7046823, CVE-2011-3544: missing SecurityManager checks in scripting en= gine

- S7055902, CVE-2011-3521: IIOP deserialization code execution

- S7057857, CVE-2011-3554: insufficient pack200 JAR files uncompress erro= r checks

- S7064341, CVE-2011-3389: HTTPS: block-wise chosen-plaintext attack agai= nst SSL/TLS (BEAST)

- S7070134, CVE-2011-3558: HotSpot crashes with sigsegv from PorterStemmer

- S7077466, CVE-2011-3556: RMI DGC server remote code execution

- S7083012, CVE-2011-3557: RMI registry privileged code execution

- S7096936, CVE-2011-3560: missing checkSetFactory calls in HttpsURLConne= ction

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Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected java-1.7.0-openjdk package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?311aed25

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 56800

File Name: fedora_2011-15555.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:java-1.7.0-openjdk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2011

Reference Information

BID: 49778, 50211, 50215, 50216, 50218, 50224, 50231, 50234, 50236, 50242, 50243, 50248

FEDORA: 2011-15555