RHEL 6 / 7 : java-1.7.1-ibm (RHSA-2015:1020) (Bar Mitzvah)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83753

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated java-1.7.1-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

IBM Java SE version 7 Release 1 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. Further information about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java Security alerts page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2005-1080, CVE-2015-0138, CVE-2015-0192, CVE-2015-0458, CVE-2015-0459, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478, CVE-2015-0480, CVE-2015-0488, CVE-2015-0491, CVE-2015-1914, CVE-2015-2808)

The CVE-2015-0478 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

Note: With this update, the IBM JDK now disables RC4 SSL/TLS cipher suites by default to address the CVE-2015-2808 issue. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug 1207101, linked to in the References section, for additional details about this change.

All users of java-1.7.1-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, containing the IBM Java SE 7R1 SR3 release. All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207101#c4

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1020

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-1080

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0469

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0478

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0480

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0477

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0488

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0491

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0459

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0458

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1914

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0192

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-2808

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0138

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83753

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1020.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/21/2015

Updated: 2/5/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.1-ibm-src, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5

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: 5/20/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1080, CVE-2015-0138, CVE-2015-0192, CVE-2015-0458, CVE-2015-0459, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478, CVE-2015-0480, CVE-2015-0488, CVE-2015-0491, CVE-2015-1914, CVE-2015-2808

BID: 13083, 73326, 73684, 74072, 74083, 74094, 74104, 74111, 74119, 74141, 74147, 74545, 74645

RHSA: 2015:1020