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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-20

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Severity: Normal

Title: Sun JDK/JRE: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: April 17, 2008

Bugs: #178851, #178962, #183580, #185256, #194711, #212425

ID: 200804-20

 

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Synopsis

========

 

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Sun Java Development

Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

 

Background

==========

 

The Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Sun Java Runtime Environment

(JRE) provide the Sun Java platform.

 

Affected packages

=================

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

-------------------------------------------------------------------

1 dev-java/sun-jre-bin < 1.6.0.05 >= 1.6.0.05

*>= 1.5.0.15

*>= 1.4.2.17

2 dev-java/sun-jdk < 1.6.0.05 >= 1.6.0.05

*>= 1.5.0.15

*>= 1.4.2.17

3 app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java < 1.6.0.05 >= 1.6.0.05

*>= 1.5.0.15

*>= 1.4.2.17

-------------------------------------------------------------------

3 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Description

===========

 

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Sun Java:

 

* Daniel Soeder discovered that a long codebase attribute string in a

JNLP file will overflow a stack variable when launched by Java

WebStart (CVE-2007-3655).

 

* Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-2435, CVE-2007-2788,

CVE-2007-2789) that were previously reported as GLSA 200705-23 and

GLSA 200706-08 also affect 1.4 and 1.6 SLOTs, which was not mentioned

in the initial revision of said GLSAs.

 

* The Zero Day Initiative, TippingPoint and John Heasman reported

multiple buffer overflows and unspecified vulnerabilities in Java Web

Start (CVE-2008-1188, CVE-2008-1189, CVE-2008-1190, CVE-2008-1191).

 

* Hisashi Kojima of Fujitsu and JPCERT/CC reported a security issue

when performing XSLT transformations (CVE-2008-1187).

 

* CERT/CC reported a Stack-based buffer overflow in Java Web Start

when using JNLP files (CVE-2008-1196).

 

* Azul Systems reported an unspecified vulnerability that allows

applets to escalate their privileges (CVE-2007-5689).

 

* Billy Rios, Dan Boneh, Collin Jackson, Adam Barth, Andrew Bortz,

Weidong Shao, and David Byrne discovered multiple instances where

Java applets or JavaScript programs run within browsers do not pin

DNS hostnames to a single IP address, allowing for DNS rebinding

attacks (CVE-2007-5232, CVE-2007-5273, CVE-2007-5274).

 

* Peter Csepely reported that Java Web Start does not properly

enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications

(CVE-2007-5237, CVE-2007-5238).

 

* Java Web Start does not properly enforce access restrictions for

untrusted Java applications and applets, when handling drag-and-drop

operations (CVE-2007-5239).

 

* Giorgio Maone discovered that warnings for untrusted code can be

hidden under applications' windows (CVE-2007-5240).

 

* Fujitsu reported two security issues where security restrictions of

web applets and applications were not properly enforced

(CVE-2008-1185, CVE-2008-1186).

 

* John Heasman of NGSSoftware discovered that the Java Plug-in does

not properly enforce the same origin policy (CVE-2008-1192).

 

* Chris Evans of the Google Security Team discovered multiple

unspecified vulnerabilities within the Java Runtime Environment Image

Parsing Library (CVE-2008-1193, CVE-2008-1194).

 

* Gregory Fleischer reported that web content fetched via the "jar:"

protocol was not subject to network access restrictions

(CVE-2008-1195).

 

* Chris Evans and Johannes Henkel of the Google Security Team

reported that the XML parsing code retrieves external entities even

when that feature is disabled (CVE-2008-0628).

 

* Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities might allow for escalation of

privileges (CVE-2008-0657).

 

Impact

======

 

A remote attacker could entice a user to run a specially crafted applet

on a website or start an application in Java Web Start to execute

arbitrary code outside of the Java sandbox and of the Java security

restrictions with the privileges of the user running Java. The attacker

could also obtain sensitive information, create, modify, rename and

read local files, execute local applications, establish connections in

the local network, bypass the same origin policy, and cause a Denial of

Service via multiple vectors.

 

Workaround

==========

 

There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

==========

 

All Sun JRE users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "dev-java/sun-jre-bin"

 

All Sun JDK users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "dev-java/sun-jdk"

 

All emul-linux-x86-java users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java"

 

References

==========

 

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-2435

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2435

[ 2 ] CVE-2007-2788

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2788

[ 3 ] CVE-2007-2789

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2789

[ 4 ] CVE-2007-3655

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3655

[ 5 ] CVE-2007-5232

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5232

[ 6 ] CVE-2007-5237

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5237

[ 7 ] CVE-2007-5238

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5238

[ 8 ] CVE-2007-5239

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5239

[ 9 ] CVE-2007-5240

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5240

[ 10 ] CVE-2007-5273

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5273

[ 11 ] CVE-2007-5274

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5274

[ 12 ] CVE-2007-5689

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5689

[ 13 ] CVE-2008-0628

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0628

[ 14 ] CVE-2008-0657

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0657

[ 15 ] CVE-2008-1185

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1185

[ 16 ] CVE-2008-1186

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1186

[ 17 ] CVE-2008-1187

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1187

[ 18 ] CVE-2008-1188

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1188

[ 19 ] CVE-2008-1189

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1189

[ 20 ] CVE-2008-1190

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1190

[ 21 ] CVE-2008-1191

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1191

[ 22 ] CVE-2008-1192

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1192

[ 23 ] CVE-2008-1193

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1193

[ 24 ] CVE-2008-1194

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1194

[ 25 ] CVE-2008-1195

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1195

[ 26 ] CVE-2008-1196

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1196

[ 27 ] GLSA 200705-23

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-23.xml

[ 28 ] GLSA 200706-08

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200706-08.xml

 

Availability

============

 

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-20.xml

 

Concerns?

=========

 

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

=======

 

Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

 

 

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