SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2016:0256-1) (SLOTH)

high Nessus Plugin ID 88453

Synopsis

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

Description

java-1_8_0-openjdk was updated to version 7u95 to fix several security issues. (bsc#962743)

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

- CVE-2015-7575: Further reduce use of MD5 (SLOTH) (bsc#960996)

- CVE-2015-8126: Vulnerability in the AWT component related to splashscreen displays

- CVE-2015-8472: Vulnerability in the AWT component, addressed by same fix

- CVE-2016-0402: Vulnerability in the Networking component related to URL processing

- CVE-2016-0448: Vulnerability in the JMX comonent related to attribute processing

- CVE-2016-0466: Vulnerability in the JAXP component, related to limits

- CVE-2016-0483: Vulnerability in the AWT component related to image decoding

- CVE-2016-0494: Vulnerability in 2D component related to font actions

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-160=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-160=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960996

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962743

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7575/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8126/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0402/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0448/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0466/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0475/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0483/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0494/

http://www.nessus.org/u?5fff6892

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 88453

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0256-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/28/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

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 v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-demo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8472, CVE-2016-0402, CVE-2016-0448, CVE-2016-0466, CVE-2016-0475, CVE-2016-0483, CVE-2016-0494