Bug 1639906 (CVE-2018-3211)

Summary:	CVE-2018-3211 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u191 and 11.0.1 (Serviceability)
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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Version:	unspecified	CC:	java-qa
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Bug Depends On:	1639731, 1639732, 1639733
Bug Blocks:	1633819

Description Tomas Hoger 2018-10-16 21:50:48 UTC

Oracle Java SE 8u191 and 11.0.1 fixes an unspecified vulnerability in the Serviceability component (CVE-2018-3211).  Upstream has CVSS scored this issue as: 6.6/CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

External Reference:

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html#AppendixJAVA

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2018-10-16 21:54:25 UTC

Oracle CPU also notes the following for this issue:

This vulnerability can only be exploited when Java Usage Tracker functionality is being used.

The Java Usage Tracker functionality is not enabled by default.  More information about it can be found here:

https://docs.oracle.com/javacomponents/usage-tracker/overview/toc.htm

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-24 22:07:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3002 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3002

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-24 22:08:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:3003 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3003