Bug 1027748 (CVE-2013-5456)

Summary:	CVE-2013-5456 IBM JDK: unspecified sandbox bypass (ORB)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, jkurik, jvanek
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Description Tomas Hoger 2013-11-07 11:25:54 UTC

An unspecified Java sandbox bypass issue in the ORB component was fixed in IBM JDK 7 SR6.  This issue got the following CVSSv2 score upstream: 9.3/AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_November_2013
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/aix/j732/Java7.fixes.html#SR6

Further info is available in this WebSphere Real Time security bulletin:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655202&myns=swgws&mynp=OCSSSTCZ&mync=R

  CVE-2013-5456, CVE-2013-5457 and CVE-2013-5458 allow code running under a
  security manager to escalate its privileges by modifying or removing the
  security manager.

Additional details may become available under this X-Force database article:

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/88255

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-07 17:15:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1507 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1507.html

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2016-04-27 12:06:27 UTC

This CVE was reportedly assigned to "Issue 70" reported by Adam Gowdiak (Security Explorations).  Details and proof-of-concept code can be found in:

http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/SE-2012-01-IBM-3.pdf
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/se-2012-01-70.71.zip

The fix was also found to be incorrect:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/43

Incorrect fix is tracked via bug 1330986.