RHSA-2013:1509 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated java-1.5.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
important 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 J2SE version 5.0 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-2013-3829, CVE-2013-4041,
CVE-2013-5372, CVE-2013-5375, CVE-2013-5774, CVE-2013-5778, CVE-2013-5780,
CVE-2013-5782, CVE-2013-5783, CVE-2013-5790, CVE-2013-5797, CVE-2013-5801,
CVE-2013-5802, CVE-2013-5803, CVE-2013-5804, CVE-2013-5809, CVE-2013-5814,
CVE-2013-5817, CVE-2013-5825, CVE-2013-5829, CVE-2013-5830, CVE-2013-5840,
CVE-2013-5842, CVE-2013-5843, CVE-2013-5849)

All users of java-1.5.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM J2SE 5.0 SR16-FP4 release. All running
instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this 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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.4 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 from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.4 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1018713 - CVE-2013-5803 OpenJDK: insufficient checks of KDC replies (JGSS, 8014341)
• BZ - 1018720 - CVE-2013-5797 OpenJDK: insufficient escaping of window title string (Javadoc, 8016675)
• BZ - 1018736 - CVE-2013-5790 OpenJDK: insufficient security checks (Beans, 8012071)
• BZ - 1018750 - CVE-2013-5849 OpenJDK: insufficient DataFlavor security checks (AWT, 8012277)
• BZ - 1018785 - CVE-2013-5780 OpenJDK: key data leak via toString() methods (Libraries, 8011071)
• BZ - 1018831 - CVE-2013-5840 OpenJDK: getDeclaringClass() information leak (Libraries, 8014349)
• BZ - 1018984 - CVE-2013-5778 OpenJDK: image conversion out of bounds read (2D, 8014102)
• BZ - 1019108 - CVE-2013-5782 OpenJDK: Incorrect awt_getPixelByte/awt_getPixelShort/awt_setPixelByte/awt_setPixelShort image raster checks (2D, 8014093)
• BZ - 1019110 - CVE-2013-5830 OpenJDK: checkPackageAccess missing security check (Libraries, 8017291)
• BZ - 1019113 - CVE-2013-5809 OpenJDK: JPEGImageReader and JPEGImageWriter missing band size checks (2D, 8013510)
• BZ - 1019115 - CVE-2013-5829 OpenJDK: Java2d Disposer security bypass (2D, 8017287)
• BZ - 1019117 - CVE-2013-5814 OpenJDK: RMIConnection stub missing permission check (CORBA, 8011157)
• BZ - 1019118 - CVE-2013-5817 OpenJDK: VersionHelper12 does not honor modifyThreadGroup restriction (JNDI, 8013739)
• BZ - 1019123 - CVE-2013-5842 OpenJDK: ObjectInputStream/ObjectOutputStream missing checks (Libraries, 8014987)
• BZ - 1019130 - CVE-2013-5802 OpenJDK: javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory does not properly honor XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING (JAXP, 8012425)
• BZ - 1019131 - CVE-2013-5804 OpenJDK: javac does not ignore certain ignorable characters (Javadoc, 8016653)
• BZ - 1019133 - CVE-2013-3829 OpenJDK: java.util.TimeZone does not restrict setting of default time zone (Libraries, 8001029)
• BZ - 1019137 - CVE-2013-5783 OpenJDK: JTable not properly performing certain access checks (Swing, 8013744)
• BZ - 1019139 - CVE-2013-5825 OpenJDK: XML parsing Denial of Service (JAXP, 8014530)
• BZ - 1019147 - CVE-2013-5774 OpenJDK: Inet6Address class IPv6 address processing errors (Libraries, 8015743)
• BZ - 1019701 - CVE-2013-5843 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u45 (2D)
• BZ - 1019710 - CVE-2013-5801 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u45 (2D)
• BZ - 1027764 - CVE-2013-4041 IBM JDK: unspecified sandbox bypass (JVM)
• BZ - 1027768 - CVE-2013-5375 IBM JDK: unspecified sandbox bypass (XML)
• BZ - 1027825 - CVE-2013-5372 IBM JDK: XML4J xml entity expansion excessive memory use (XML)

CVEs

• CVE-2013-5814
• CVE-2013-5817
• CVE-2013-5797
• CVE-2013-5790
• CVE-2013-3829
• CVE-2013-5843
• CVE-2013-5829
• CVE-2013-5825
• CVE-2013-5802
• CVE-2013-5803
• CVE-2013-5801
• CVE-2013-5804
• CVE-2013-5849
• CVE-2013-5809
• CVE-2013-5842
• CVE-2013-5780
• CVE-2013-5783
• CVE-2013-5782
• CVE-2013-5840
• CVE-2013-5774
• CVE-2013-5778
• CVE-2013-5830
• CVE-2013-5375
• CVE-2013-5372
• CVE-2013-4041

References

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