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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities (USN-2574-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82992

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2574-1 advisory.

 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469)

 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that OpenJDK JRE was vulnerable to directory traversal issues with respect to handling jar files. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0480)

 Florian Weimer discovered that the RSA implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK JRE did not follow recommended practices for implementing RSA signatures. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive data. (CVE-2015-0478)

 A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to data integrity. An attacker could exploit this expose sensitive data over the network. (CVE-2015-0477)

 A vulnerability was discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-0488)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2574-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82992

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2574-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2015

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0469

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0488

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-jre-lib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-demo, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-jre-zero, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-jdk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:icedtea-7-jre-jamvm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-jre, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openjdk-7-jre-headless

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/21/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478, CVE-2015-0480, CVE-2015-0488

USN: 2574-1