Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2815

 

Security restrictions bypass in Oracle products - CVE-2018-2815

Published: April 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11958
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-2018-2815
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
Oracle Java SE
Java SE Embedded
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node

openSUSE Leap
System Networking Switch Center (SNSC)

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2815

Install update from vendor's website.

System Networking Switch Center (SNSC) - update to 7.3.4

External References

Related Security Bulletins