Bug 1168977 (CVE-2014-8120)

Summary: CVE-2014-8120 thermostat: local JMX URL disclosure
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: chazlett, dbhole, ebaron, jorton, jrusnack, mmaslano, neugens, omajid, security-response-team, sgehwolf
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It was discovered that, in certain configurations, the Thermostat agent disclosed JMX management URLs of all local Java virtual machines to any local user. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
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agent-proxy-remove-rmi-v2.patch none

Description Florian Weimer 2014-11-28 15:38:14 UTC 
It was discovered that in certain configurations, the Thermostat agent
discloses JMX management URLs of all local Java virtual machines to any
local user. This allows local users to increase their privileges.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Elliott Baron of Red Hat.
Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2014-11-28 15:47:47 UTC 
Created attachment 962535 [details]
agent-proxy-remove-rmi-v2.patch

Proposed upstream patch by Elliott Baron
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2014-12-16 21:13:50 UTC 
External References:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/pipermail/thermostat-announce/2014-December/000013.html
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-16 21:36:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2014:2000 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2000.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2014-12-16 22:11:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2014:2000 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2000.html
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-01-08 07:02:09 UTC 
thermostat-1.0.6-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-01-08 07:02:27 UTC 
thermostat-1.0.6-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.