Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2795

 

Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2795

Published: April 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11949
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-2795
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE due to improper security restrictions. A remote attacker can partially cause the service to crash.

Affected software

Oracle Java SE
Java SE Embedded
JRockit
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
IBM AIX
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Ubuntu
Red Hat Satellite

Cognos Insight
openSUSE Leap
openjdk-7-jre-headless (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-7-jre-zero (Ubuntu package)
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-7-jre-lib (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-7-jre (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-8-jre-jamvm (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-8-jre-zero (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-8-jre-headless (Ubuntu package)
openjdk-8-jre (Ubuntu package)
System Networking Switch Center (SNSC)

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2795

Install update from vendor's website.

openjdk-7-jre-headless (Ubuntu package) - update to 7u181-2.6.14-0ubuntu0.1
openjdk-7-jre-zero (Ubuntu package) - update to 7u181-2.6.14-0ubuntu0.1
icedtea-7-jre-jamvm (Ubuntu package) - update to 7u181-2.6.14-0ubuntu0.1
openjdk-7-jre-lib (Ubuntu package) - update to 7u181-2.6.14-0ubuntu0.1
openjdk-7-jre (Ubuntu package) - update to 7u181-2.6.14-0ubuntu0.1
openjdk-8-jre-jamvm (Ubuntu package) - update to 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
openjdk-8-jre-zero (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
openjdk-8-jre-headless (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
openjdk-8-jre (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 8u171-b11-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
System Networking Switch Center (SNSC) - update to 7.3.4

External References

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