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Fedora 16 : java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.6-2.3.1.fc16.2 (2012-13138)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 61761

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update is fixing recent important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE.

It was discovered that the Beans component in OpenJDK did not perform permission checks properly. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to use classes from restricted packages, allowing it to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. (CVE-2012-4681) Updated to latest IcedTea7 2.3 based on latest build of OpenJDK u6.

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2012/08/31/security-icedtea6-1-10-9
-1-11-4-icedtea-2-3-2-released/

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

Solution

Update the affected java-1.7.0-openjdk package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?01bc4bcb

http://www.nessus.org/u?e61d516d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 61761

File Name: fedora_2012-13138.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/4/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:java-1.7.0-openjdk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2012

Reference Information

BID: 55213

FEDORA: 2012-13138