Bug 1219265 (CVE-2015-1916)

Summary:	CVE-2015-1916 IBM JDK: unspecified SSL/TLS server DoS
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, jvanek
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-05-06 21:47:22 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1209063

Description Tomas Hoger 2015-05-06 21:44:09 UTC

IBM JDK version 8 SR1 corrects an unspecified denial of service flaw in the JSSE component:

Server applications which use the IBM Java Secure Socket Extension provider to accept SSL/TLS connections are vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to an unspecified vulnerability.

References:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_May_2015
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21883640

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-05-06 21:47:22 UTC

According to IBM Java security alerts page, this only affected IBM Java 8, which is not currently shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  The java-1.5.0-ibm, java-1.6.0-ibm, java-1.7.0-ibm and java-1.7.1-ibm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 Supplementary were not affected by this issue.