Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2799

 

Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2799

Published: April 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11953
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-2018-2799
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 Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
openEuler
Red Hat Satellite

IBM Security Verify Directory
System Networking Switch Center (SNSC)
openSUSE Leap
xerces-j2
xerces-j2-help
Operational Decision Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2799

Install update from vendor's website.

IBM Security Verify Directory - update to 11.0.0.1
xerces-j2 - update to 2.12.2-1
xerces-j2-help - update to 2.12.2-1
System Networking Switch Center (SNSC) - update to 7.3.4
Operational Decision Manager - addressed in versions 8.10.5.1 Interim fix 36, 8.11.0.1 Interim fix 17, 8.11.0.1 Interim fix 18, 8.11.1 Interim fix 7

External References

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