Bug 865350 (CVE-2012-5070)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5070 OpenJDK: EnvHelp information disclosure (JMX, 7158796)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Stefan Cornelius <scorneli>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ahughes, aph, dbhole, jvanek, rkennke, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	icedtea7 2.1.3, icedtea7 2.2.3, icedtea7 2.3.3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Stefan Cornelius 2012-10-11 09:38:04 UTC

It was disovered that the com.sun.jmx.remote.util.EnvHelp class in OpenJDK could perform certain actions in an insecure manner. A malicious Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to disclose sensitive information.A malicious Java application or applet could use this flaw to disclose possibly sensitive information.

Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2012-10-17 09:59:38 UTC

Fixed now in Oracle JDK 7u9.

External Reference:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-17 16:10:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2012-10-17 17:01:26 UTC

Fix included in IcedTea7 versions 2.1.3, 2.2.3 and 2.3.3:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-October/020571.html
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.3/jdk/rev/da0ee7f1af26

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-18 16:45:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1391 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1391.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-15 21:08:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1467 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1467.html