RHEL 6 : java-1.7.0-ibm (RHSA-2012:1289)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 62196

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.7.0-ibm.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1289 advisory.

- OpenJDK: AWT hardening fixes (AWT, 7163201) (CVE-2012-0547)

- Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u33 and 7u5 (Deployment) (CVE-2012-0551, CVE-2012-1721, CVE-2012-1722)

- OpenJDK: beans ClassFinder insufficient permission checks (beans, 7162476) (CVE-2012-1682)

- OpenJDK: fontmanager layout lookup code memory corruption (2D, 7143617) (CVE-2012-1713)

- OpenJDK: SynthLookAndFeel application context bypass (Swing, 7143614) (CVE-2012-1716)

- OpenJDK: insecure temporary file permissions (JRE, 7143606) (CVE-2012-1717)

- OpenJDK: mutable repository identifiers in generated stub code (CORBA, 7143851) (CVE-2012-1719)

- OpenJDK: insufficient invokespecial <init> verification (HotSpot, 7160757) (CVE-2012-1725)

- OpenJDK: java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.Lookup does not honor access modes (Libraries, 7165628) (CVE-2012-1726)

- OpenJDK: beans MethodElementHandler insufficient permission checks (beans, 7194567) (CVE-2012-3136)

- OpenJDK: beans insufficient permission checks, Java 7 0day (beans, 7162473) (CVE-2012-4681)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL java-1.7.0-ibm package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1289.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?346be951

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1289

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829358

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829360

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829371

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829376

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829377

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831353

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831354

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831355

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=852051

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853097

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853138

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853228

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 62196

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1289.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/19/2012

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1725

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.0-ibm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.0-ibm-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.0-ibm-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.0-ibm-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.0-ibm-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.7.0-ibm-src, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/3/2012

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 3/24/2022

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Java 7 Applet Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0547, CVE-2012-0551, CVE-2012-1682, CVE-2012-1713, CVE-2012-1716, CVE-2012-1717, CVE-2012-1719, CVE-2012-1721, CVE-2012-1722, CVE-2012-1725, CVE-2012-1726, CVE-2012-3136, CVE-2012-4681

BID: 53136, 53946, 53947, 53948, 53950, 53952, 53953, 53954, 53959, 55213, 55336, 55337, 55339

CWE: 732

RHSA: 2012:1289