RHSA-2012:1289 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated java-1.7.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

IBM Java SE version 7 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM
Java Software Development Kit.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime
Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. Detailed
vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM Security alerts page,
listed in the References section. (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)

All users of java-1.7.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM Java SE 7 SR2 release. All running instances
of IBM Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.3 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 829358 - CVE-2012-1717 OpenJDK: insecure temporary file permissions (JRE, 7143606)
• BZ - 829360 - CVE-2012-1716 OpenJDK: SynthLookAndFeel application context bypass (Swing, 7143614)
• BZ - 829361 - CVE-2012-1713 OpenJDK: fontmanager layout lookup code memory corruption (2D, 7143617)
• BZ - 829371 - CVE-2012-1719 OpenJDK: mutable repository identifiers in generated stub code (CORBA, 7143851)
• BZ - 829376 - CVE-2012-1725 OpenJDK: insufficient invokespecial <init> verification (HotSpot, 7160757)
• BZ - 829377 - CVE-2012-1726 OpenJDK: java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.Lookup does not honor access modes (Libraries, 7165628)
• BZ - 831353 - CVE-2012-1721 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u33 and 7u5 (Deployment)
• BZ - 831354 - CVE-2012-1722 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u33 and 7u5 (Deployment)
• BZ - 831355 - CVE-2012-0551 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u33 and 7u5 (Deployment)
• BZ - 852051 - CVE-2012-4681 OpenJDK: beans insufficient permission checks, Java 7 0day (beans, 7162473)
• BZ - 853097 - CVE-2012-1682 OpenJDK: beans ClassFinder insufficient permission checks (beans, 7162476)
• BZ - 853138 - CVE-2012-3136 OpenJDK: beans MethodElementHandler insufficient permission checks (beans, 7194567)
• BZ - 853228 - CVE-2012-0547 OpenJDK: AWT hardening fixes (AWT, 7163201)

CVEs

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

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/