RHEL 5 : java-1.4.2-ibm-sap (RHSA-2012:1332)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 78936

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.4.2-ibm-sap.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1332 advisory.

IBM J2SE version 1.4.2 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. Detailed vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM Security alerts page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2012-1713, CVE-2012-1717, CVE-2012-1718, CVE-2012-1719)

All users of java-1.4.2-ibm-sap are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain the IBM J2SE 1.4.2 SR13-FP13 release. All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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-1.4.2-ibm-sap package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1332.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?974665bc

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1332

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829358

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829371

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829372

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 78936

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1332.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2014

Updated: 11/4/2024

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: 9.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2012-1713

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.4.2-ibm-sap-demo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.4.2-ibm-sap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.4.2-ibm-sap-javacomm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.4.2-ibm-sap-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.4.2-ibm-sap-src

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: 10/3/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1713, CVE-2012-1717, CVE-2012-1718, CVE-2012-1719

BID: 53946, 53950, 53951, 53952

CWE: 732

RHSA: 2012:1332