RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.6.0-sun (RHSA-2012:0139)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 57991

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.6.0-sun.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0139 advisory.

- OpenJDK: JavaSound incorrect bounds check (Sound, 7088367) (CVE-2011-3563)

- OpenJDK: AtomicReferenceArray insufficient array type check (Concurrency, 7082299) (CVE-2011-3571, CVE-2012-0507)

- GlassFish: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003) (CVE-2011-5035)

- Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u31 and 7u3 (2D) (CVE-2012-0498, CVE-2012-0499)

- Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u31 and 7u3 (Deployment) (CVE-2012-0500)

- OpenJDK: off-by-one bug in ZIP reading code (JRE, 7118283) (CVE-2012-0501)

- OpenJDK: KeyboardFocusManager focus stealing (AWT, 7110683) (CVE-2012-0502)

- OpenJDK: unrestricted use of TimeZone.setDefault() (i18n, 7110687) (CVE-2012-0503)

- OpenJDK: incomplete info in the deserialization exception (Serialization, 7110700) (CVE-2012-0505)

- OpenJDK: mutable repository identifiers (CORBA, 7110704) (CVE-2012-0506)

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-1.6.0-sun package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0139.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a28bc529

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788606

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788624

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788976

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788994

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789295

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789297

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789299

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789300

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790720

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790724

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa5506d5

http://www.nessus.org/u?f4d77b1c

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0139

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 57991

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0139.nasl

Version: 1.39

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/17/2012

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0507

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0498

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-plugin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun

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: 2/16/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2011

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Java AtomicReferenceArray Type Violation Vulnerability)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3563, CVE-2011-3571, CVE-2011-5035, CVE-2012-0498, CVE-2012-0499, CVE-2012-0500, CVE-2012-0501, CVE-2012-0502, CVE-2012-0503, CVE-2012-0505, CVE-2012-0506, CVE-2012-0507

BID: 51194, 51467, 52011, 52012, 52013, 52014, 52015, 52016, 52017, 52018, 52019

CWE: 193

RHSA: 2012:0139