Bug 1685717 (CVE-2018-12549)

Summary:	CVE-2018-12549 IBM JDK: missing null check when accelerating Unsafe calls
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:	abergmann, bkearney, java-qa, meissner, tlestach
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Bug Depends On:	1685111, 1685112, 1685113, 1685117, 1689835, 1694579
Bug Blocks:	1661579

Description Tomas Hoger 2019-03-05 21:36:26 UTC

IBM JDK 8 SR5 FP30 (8.0.5.30) fixes a flaw described by upstream as:

Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to omit a null check on the receiver object of an Unsafe call when accelerating it. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

OpenJ9 upstream bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=544019

Related OpenJ9 upstream commit seems to be:

https://github.com/eclipse/openj9/commit/531d3f96fe9cdcf6baad9f6d6837be8fbc805d8d

References:

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10873332
https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/#IBM_Security_Update_March_2019

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2019-03-06 21:52:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2019:0469 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0469

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2019-03-07 15:58:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2019:0472 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0472

Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2019-03-18 13:12:45 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of the  java-1.8.0-ibm package as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 5. However, OpenJ9 is loaded only by taskomatic and Tomcat. These 2 processes are listening on the loopback interface only. This flaw is not known to be remotely exploitable under any supported scenario in Satellite 5.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2019-03-25 18:25:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.8

Via RHSA-2019:0640 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0640

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2019-05-16 13:25:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:1238 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1238