Bug 1685725 (CVE-2018-1890)

Summary:	CVE-2018-1890 IBM JDK: local privilege escalation via insecure RPATHs
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	abergmann, bkearney, ggainey, java-qa, meissner, tlestach
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Description Tomas Hoger 2019-03-05 22:15:50 UTC

IBM JDK 8 SR5 FP20 (8.0.5.30) fixes a flaw described by upstream as:

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users.

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 Tomas Hoger 2019-03-05 22:16:44 UTC

This issue only affected the version of IBM JDK for AIX operating system.