RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.6.0-sun (RHSA-2012:0734)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59492

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.6.0-sun.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0734 advisory.

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

- OpenJDK: improper protection of CORBA data models (CORBA, 7079902) (CVE-2012-1711)

- 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: CRL and certificate extensions handling improvements (Security, 7143872) (CVE-2012-1718)

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

- OpenJDK: insufficient field accessibility checks (HotSpot, 7152811) (CVE-2012-1723)

- OpenJDK: XML parsing infinite loop (JAXP, 7157609) (CVE-2012-1724)

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

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-1.6.0-sun package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:0734.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59492

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-0734.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/14/2012

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: 9.9

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-2012-1725

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1724

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.6.0-sun-src, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, 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: 6/13/2012

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

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Java Applet Field Bytecode Verifier Cache Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0551, CVE-2012-1711, CVE-2012-1713, CVE-2012-1716, CVE-2012-1717, CVE-2012-1718, CVE-2012-1719, CVE-2012-1721, CVE-2012-1722, CVE-2012-1723, CVE-2012-1724, CVE-2012-1725

BID: 53136, 53953, 53959

CWE: 732, 835

RHSA: 2012:0734

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