RHEL 8 : java-1.8.0-ibm (RHSA-2020:2241)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136738

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VPR Score: 6.5

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2241 advisory.

- OpenJDK: Improper handling of Kerberos proxy credentials (Kerberos, 8220302) (CVE-2019-2949)

- OpenJDK: Excessive memory usage in OID processing in X.509 certificate parsing (Libraries, 8234037) (CVE-2020-2654)

- OpenJDK: Misplaced regular expression syntax error check in RegExpScanner (Scripting, 8223898) (CVE-2020-2754)

- OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of empty string nodes in regular expression Parser (Scripting, 8223904) (CVE-2020-2755)

- OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of references to uninitialized class descriptors during deserialization (Serialization, 8224541) (CVE-2020-2756)

- OpenJDK: Uncaught InstantiationError exception in ObjectStreamClass (Serialization, 8224549) (CVE-2020-2757)

- OpenJDK: Re-use of single TLS session for new connections (JSSE, 8234408) (CVE-2020-2781)

- OpenJDK: CRLF injection into HTTP headers in HttpServer (Lightweight HTTP Server, 8234825) (CVE-2020-2800)

- OpenJDK: Incorrect bounds checks in NIO Buffers (Libraries, 8234841) (CVE-2020-2803)

- OpenJDK: Incorrect type checks in MethodType.readObject() (Libraries, 8235274) (CVE-2020-2805)

- OpenJDK: Regular expression DoS in Scanner (Concurrency, 8236201) (CVE-2020-2830)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136738

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2241.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2020

Updated: 3/24/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

VPR Score: 6.5

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-2800

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart

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: 5/20/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-2949, CVE-2020-2654, CVE-2020-2754, CVE-2020-2755, CVE-2020-2756, CVE-2020-2757, CVE-2020-2781, CVE-2020-2800, CVE-2020-2803, CVE-2020-2805, CVE-2020-2830

RHSA: 2020:2241

CWE: 20, 113, 119, 185, 248, 400, 522, 770