RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.5.0-ibm (RHSA-2011:1478)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 56942

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.5.0-ibm.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1478 advisory.

- Oracle/IBM JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Sound) (CVE-2011-3545)

- OpenJDK: InputStream skip() information leak (Networking/IO, 7000600) (CVE-2011-3547)

- OpenJDK: mutable static AWTKeyStroke.ctor (AWT, 7019773) (CVE-2011-3548)

- Oracle/IBM JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Swing) (CVE-2011-3549)

- OpenJDK: excessive default UDP socket limit under SecurityManager (Networking, 7032417) (CVE-2011-3552)

- OpenJDK: insufficient pack200 JAR files uncompress error checks (Runtime, 7057857) (CVE-2011-3554)

- OpenJDK: RMI DGC server remote code execution (RMI, 7077466) (CVE-2011-3556)

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-1.5.0-ibm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1478.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?34e7b11c

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745387

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745397

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745447

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745459

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745473

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747191

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747198

http://www.nessus.org/u?3fed43a3

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1478

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 56942

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1478.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/26/2011

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

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-2011-3554

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-2011-3556

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-accessibility, 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:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 11/24/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2011

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Java RMI Server Insecure Default Configuration Java Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3545, CVE-2011-3547, CVE-2011-3548, CVE-2011-3549, CVE-2011-3552, CVE-2011-3554, CVE-2011-3556

BID: 50211, 50216, 50220, 50223, 50231, 50243, 50248

RHSA: 2011:1478