Oracle Linux 7 : icedtea-web (ELSA-2019-2003)

high Nessus Plugin ID 127611

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2019:2003 :

An update for icedtea-web is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project.
It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations. IcedTea-Web now also contains PolicyEditor - a simple tool to configure Java policies.

Security Fix(es) :

* icedtea-web: path traversal while processing elements of JNLP files results in arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2019-10182)

* icedtea-web: directory traversal in the nested jar auto-extraction leading to arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2019-10185)

* icedtea-web: unsigned code injection in a signed JAR file (CVE-2019-10181)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected icedtea-web packages.

See Also

https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2019-July/008956.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 127611

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2019-2003.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/19/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10181

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10185

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:icedtea-web, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:icedtea-web-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:icedtea-web-javadoc, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10181, CVE-2019-10182, CVE-2019-10185

RHSA: 2019:2003