RHEL 2.1 : IBMJava2 (RHSA-2008:0133)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33247

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

IBMJava2-JRE and IBMJava2-SDK packages that correct several security issues are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

IBM's 1.3.1 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit.

A buffer overflow was found in the Java Runtime Environment image-handling code. An untrusted applet or application could use this flaw to elevate its privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running the java virtual machine. (CVE-2007-3004)

An unspecified vulnerability was discovered in the Java Runtime Environment. An untrusted applet or application could cause the java virtual machine to become unresponsive. (CVE-2007-3005)

A flaw was found in the applet class loader. An untrusted applet could use this flaw to circumvent network access restrictions, possibly connecting to services hosted on the machine that executed the applet.
(CVE-2007-3922)

These updated packages also add the following enhancements :

* Time zone information has been updated to the latest available information, 2007h.

* Accessibility support in AWT can now be disabled through a system property, java.assistive. To support this change, permission to read this property must be added to /opt/IBMJava2-131/jre/lib/security/java.policy. Users of IBMJava2 who have modified this file should add this following line to the grant section :

permission java.util.PropertyPermission 'java.assistive', 'read';

All users of IBMJava2 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain IBM's 1.3.1 SR11 Java release, which resolves these issues.

Solution

Update the affected IBMJava2-JRE and / or IBMJava2-SDK packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3004

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3005

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-3922

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/?ar=1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0133

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33247

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0133.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/24/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibmjava2-jre, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ibmjava2-sdk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

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: 6/24/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2788, CVE-2007-2789, CVE-2007-3922

BID: 24004, 25054

CWE: 189, 399

RHSA: 2008:0133