Privilege escalation in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-10388

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Privilege escalation in Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-10388

Published: October 18, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8881
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10388
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges.

The weakness exists due to a flaw in the Libraries component. A remote attacker can escalate his privileges on the target system.

Affected software

Oracle Java SE
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
IBM AIX
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Red Hat Satellite
IBM Cognos Controller
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-2017-10388

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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