RHEL 4 : java-1.5.0-ibm (RHSA-2007:0073)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63839

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

java-1.5.0-ibm packages that correct several security issues are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

IBM's 1.5.0 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit.

Vulnerabilities were discovered in the Java Runtime Environment. An untrusted applet could use these vulnerabilities to access data from other applets. (CVE-2006-6736, CVE-2006-6737)

Serialization flaws were discovered in the Java Runtime Environment.
An untrusted applet or application could use these flaws to elevate its privileges. (CVE-2006-6745)

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in the Java Runtime Environment. An untrusted applet could use these flaws to elevate its privileges, possibly reading and writing local files or executing local applications. (CVE-2006-6731)

Daniel Bleichenbacher discovered an attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures.
Where an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible for an attacker to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that would be incorrectly verified by implementations that do not check for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature. (CVE-2006-4339)

All users of java-ibm-1.5.0 should upgrade to these packages, which contain IBM's 1.5.0 SR3 Java release which resolves these issues.

Please note that the packages in this erratum are identical to those we released on January 24th 2007 in advisory RHEA-2007:0027. We have issued this security update because when we released RHEA-2007:0027 we were not aware that it contained fixes for security issues. If you have already updated to those packages you will not need to apply this update.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63839

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0073.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/24/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm-javacomm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.5.0-ibm-src, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4339, CVE-2006-6731, CVE-2006-6736, CVE-2006-6737, CVE-2006-6745

CWE: 310

RHSA: 2007:0073

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