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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2016:3078-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 95711

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for java-1_8_0-ibm fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2016-5568: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to AWT

 - CVE-2016-5556: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to 2D

 - CVE-2016-5573: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Hotspot

 - CVE-2016-5597: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to Networking

 - CVE-2016-5554: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect integrity via vectors related to JMX

 - CVE-2016-5542: Unspecified vulnerability allowed remote attackers to affect integrity via vectors related to Libraries

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2016-1792=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-1792=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2016-1792=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1792=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009280

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5542/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5554/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5556/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5568/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5573/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5597/

http://www.nessus.org/u?212e9284

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 95711

File Name: suse_SU-2016-3078-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm-alsa, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-ibm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5542, CVE-2016-5554, CVE-2016-5556, CVE-2016-5568, CVE-2016-5573, CVE-2016-5597