RHSA-2015:1007 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated java-1.7.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security 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. Further information
about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java Security alerts page, listed
in the References section. (CVE-2005-1080, CVE-2015-0138, CVE-2015-0192,
CVE-2015-0458, CVE-2015-0459, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478,
CVE-2015-0480, CVE-2015-0488, CVE-2015-0491, CVE-2015-1914, CVE-2015-2808)

The CVE-2015-0478 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat
Product Security.

Note: With this update, the IBM JDK now disables RC4 SSL/TLS cipher suites
by default to address the CVE-2015-2808 issue. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla
bug 1207101, linked to from the References section, for additional details
about this change.

All users of java-1.7.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM Java SE 7 SR9 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/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 606442 - CVE-2005-1080 jar: directory traversal vulnerability
• BZ - 1207101 - CVE-2015-2808 SSL/TLS: "Invariance Weakness" vulnerability in RC4 stream cipher
• BZ - 1210355 - CVE-2015-0478 OpenJDK: RSA implementation hardening (JCE, 8071726)
• BZ - 1210829 - CVE-2015-0469 ICU: layout engine glyphStorage off-by-one (OpenJDK 2D, 8067699)
• BZ - 1211299 - CVE-2015-0477 OpenJDK: incorrect permissions check in resource loading (Beans, 8068320)
• BZ - 1211504 - CVE-2015-0480 OpenJDK: jar directory traversal issues (Tools, 8064601)
• BZ - 1211543 - CVE-2015-0488 OpenJDK: certificate options parsing uncaught exception (JSSE, 8068720)
• BZ - 1211768 - CVE-2015-0459 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 5.0u85, 6u95, 7u79 and 8u45 (2D)
• BZ - 1211769 - CVE-2015-0491 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 5.0u85, 6u95, 7u79 and 8u45 (2D)
• BZ - 1211771 - CVE-2015-0458 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u95, 7u79 and 8u45 (Deployment)
• BZ - 1219212 - CVE-2015-0192 IBM JDK: unspecified Java sandbox restrictions bypass
• BZ - 1219215 - CVE-2015-1914 IBM JDK: unspecified partial Java sandbox restrictions bypass
• BZ - 1219223 - CVE-2015-0138 IBM JDK: ephemeral RSA keys accepted for non-export SSL/TLS cipher suites (FREAK)

CVEs

• CVE-2005-1080
• CVE-2015-0469
• CVE-2015-0478
• CVE-2015-0480
• CVE-2015-0477
• CVE-2015-0488
• CVE-2015-0491
• CVE-2015-0459
• CVE-2015-0458
• CVE-2015-1914
• CVE-2015-0192
• CVE-2015-2808
• CVE-2015-0138

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207101#c4