Bug 853138 (CVE-2012-3136)

Summary:	CVE-2012-3136 OpenJDK: beans MethodElementHandler insufficient permission checks (beans, 7194567)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ahughes, dbhole, jvanek, omajid, security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-09-19 08:45:35 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	852299, 852300, 852301, 852302, 852303, 852304, 854890, 854891, 856471
Bug Blocks:	852098

Description Tomas Hoger 2012-08-30 15:00:46 UTC

A flaw was found in the java.beans MethodElementHandler implementation.  A Java code running in the Java sandbox could use this flaw to bypass sandbox restrictions and run arbitrary code with the Java Virtual Machine privileges.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2012-08-30 19:23:23 UTC

Public now via Oracle Java SE 7 Update 7:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2012-4681-1835715.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/security/entry/security_alert_for_cve_20121
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u7-relnotes-1835816.html

External Reference:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2012-4681-1835715.html

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2012-08-31 07:34:23 UTC

Upstream fix, as applied in IcedTea 7 2.3 repositories:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.3/jdk/rev/5f709891901c

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2012-08-31 09:55:25 UTC

OpenJDK7 repositories commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/83163c4895e3

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-03 13:01:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1223 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1223.html

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2012-09-03 18:47:24 UTC

Fixed in IcedTea versions: 2.1.2, 2.2.2 and 2.3.2

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-August/020127.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-August/020144.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-September/020151.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-04 07:05:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1225 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1225.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-18 22:53:22 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1289 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1289.html