Bug 1242379 (CVE-2015-4749)

Summary: CVE-2015-4749 OpenJDK: DnsClient fails to release request information after error (JNDI, 8075378)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dbhole, jvanek, sbaiduzh, security-response-team
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It was discovered that the JNDI component in OpenJDK did not handle DNS resolution errors correctly. An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and CPU time, and possibly block further DNS resolution.
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Description Tomas Hoger 2015-07-13 08:40:02 UTC
It was discovered that the DnsClient client class in the JNDI (Java Naming and Directory Interface) component in OpenJDK failed to properly remove information about an outgoing DNS request from the list of outstanding DNS requests when certain errors occurred during DNS resolution.  An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and possibly block further DNS resolution (after exhausting all DNS transaction ids).

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-07-14 20:45:57 UTC
Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - July 2015.  Fixed in Oracle Java SE 6u101, 7u85, and 8u51.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html#AppendixJAVA

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-15 12:01:59 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1230 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1230.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-15 12:36:51 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1229 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1229.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-15 12:38:00 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1228 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1228.html

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2015-07-16 15:03:05 UTC
OpenJDK 8 upstream commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/2f0bce4ee0de

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-17 08:04:21 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1243 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1243.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-17 08:05:32 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1242 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1242.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-17 08:08:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1241 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1241.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 19:34:05 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:1486 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1486.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 19:57:10 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1485 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1485.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-23 19:21:41 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1488 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1488.html

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-30 17:15:54 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1526 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1526.html

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2015-08-04 17:14:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:1544 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1544.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2015-08-12 16:40:22 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite Server v 5.7
  Red Hat Satellite Server v 5.6

Via RHSA-2015:1604 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1604.html