RHEL 7 : java-1.7.1-ibm (RHSA-2014:1042)

high Nessus Plugin ID 77143

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.7.1-ibm.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:1042 advisory.

- IBM JDK: Java CMS keystore provider potentially allows brute-force private key recovery (CVE-2014-3068)

- IBM JDK: Privilege escalation issue (CVE-2014-3086)

- Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u65 and 8u11 (Deployment) (CVE-2014-4208, CVE-2014-4220)

- OpenJDK: SubjectDelegator protection insufficient (JMX, 8029755) (CVE-2014-4209)

- OpenJDK: Clone interfaces passed to proxy methods (Libraries, 8035009) (CVE-2014-4218)

- OpenJDK: Bytecode verification does not prevent ctor calls to this() and super() (Hotspot, 8035119) (CVE-2014-4219)

- OpenJDK: MethodHandles.Lookup insufficient modifiers checks (Libraries, 8035788) (CVE-2014-4221)

- Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u81, 7u65 and 8u11 (Deployment) (CVE-2014-4227, CVE-2014-4265)

- OpenJDK: RSA blinding issues (Security, 8031346) (CVE-2014-4244)

- OpenJDK: Prevent instantiation of service with non-public constructor (Security, 8035004) (CVE-2014-4252)

- OpenJDK: AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater missing primitive type check (Libraries, 8039520) (CVE-2014-4262)

- OpenJDK: insufficient Diffie-Hellman public key validation (Security, 8037162) (CVE-2014-4263)

- OpenJDK: InfoBuilder incorrect return values (Serviceability, 8033301) (CVE-2014-4266)

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-1.7.1-ibm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2014:1042.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab2720b5

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1042

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075795

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119475

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119476

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119483

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119596

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119608

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119611

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119613

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119615

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119912

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119913

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119914

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119915

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 77143

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1042.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2014

Updated: 4/24/2024

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: 6.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4227

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-4252

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-demo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3068, CVE-2014-3086, CVE-2014-4208, CVE-2014-4209, CVE-2014-4218, CVE-2014-4219, CVE-2014-4220, CVE-2014-4221, CVE-2014-4227, CVE-2014-4244, CVE-2014-4252, CVE-2014-4262, CVE-2014-4263, CVE-2014-4265, CVE-2014-4266

BID: 68571, 68576, 68580, 68583, 68596, 68599, 68603, 68620, 68624, 68632, 68636, 68639, 68642, 71408

CWE: 266

RHSA: 2014:1042