Bug 1779880 (CVE-2019-17631)

Summary:	CVE-2019-17631 IBM JDK: Unrestricted access to diagnostic operations
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:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bkearney, java-qa, tlestach
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Bug Depends On:	1777848, 1777849, 1777850, 1777851, 1777852, 1778949
Bug Blocks:	1753424

Description Tomas Hoger 2019-12-04 22:06:57 UTC

IBM JDK 8 SR6 (8.0.6.0) fixes a flaw described by upstream as:

Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the failure to performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to diagnostic operations such as causing a GC or creating a diagnostic file.

OpenJ9 upstream bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=552129

References:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1120071
https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/#IBM_Security_Update_November_2019

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2019-12-09 08:57:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2019:4113 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4113

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-12-09 13:04:53 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-17631

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2019-12-09 13:27:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary

Via RHSA-2019:4115 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4115

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-02 14:02:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.8

Via RHSA-2020:0006 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0006

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-07 15:11:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:0046 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0046