Improper access control in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-10274

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Improper access control in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-10274

Published: October 18, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8862
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10274
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to access potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to a flaw in the Smart Card IO component. A remote attacker can read and modify arbitrary files on the target system.

Affected software

Oracle Java SE
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
java-1.6.0-sun-devel (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-demo (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.7.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package)
java-1.8.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10274

The vulnerability is addressed in the following version: 8u151.

java-1.6.0-sun-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-demo (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el6, 1.6.0.171-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.7.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.7.0.161-1jpp.3.el6, 1.7.0.161-1jpp.4.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-plugin (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-jdbc (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-javafx (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-src (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7
java-1.8.0-oracle-devel (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.8.0.151-1jpp.1.el6, 1.8.0.151-1jpp.5.el7

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