Bug 894934 (CVE-2012-3174)

Summary:	CVE-2012-3174 OpenJDK: MethodHandles incorrect permission checks (Libraries, 8004933)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	David Jorm <djorm>
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, aph, dbhole, jerboaa, jlieskov, jvanek, mjc, omajid
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	icedtea7 2.1.4, icedtea7 2.2.4, icedtea7 2.3.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	894935, 894936, 894937, 894938, 895031, 895032, 895033, 895034, 895035
Bug Blocks:	894173

Description David Jorm 2013-01-14 03:59:06 UTC

Oracle Java SE 7 Update 11 resolves CVE-2012-3174, an unknown flaw that allows for remote arbitrary code execution, related to CVE-2013-0422 (bug 894172).

External Reference:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2013-0422-1896849.html

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2013-01-14 10:51:24 UTC

Created java-1.7.0-openjdk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 895035]

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2013-01-14 18:59:20 UTC

Related commits in upstream OpenJDK7 repositories:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/ecc14534318c
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/d9969a953f69

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-14 20:54:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0156 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0156.html

Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2013-01-14 22:38:10 UTC

I'm not sure which of the two CVEs this is referring to, but this could be pertinent to OpenJDK where we can actually change code:

http://immunityproducts.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/confirmed-java-only-fixed-one-of-two.html

Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2013-01-15 12:37:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #8)
> I'm not sure which of the two CVEs this is referring to

The post should be related to CVE-2013-0422, see bug 894172, comment 27.

Comment 13 Tomas Hoger 2013-01-16 08:04:13 UTC

Patches integrated in upstream IcedTea versions 2.1.4, 2.2.4 and 2.3.4:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-January/021413.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-16 18:27:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0165 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0165.html

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-11 18:58:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0626 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0626.html