Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2797

 

Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2797

Published: April 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11951
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-2018-2797
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

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

Cognos Insight
openSUSE Leap

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2797

Install update from vendor's website.


External References

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