Bug 907460 (CVE-2013-0429)

Summary:	CVE-2013-0429 OpenJDK: PresentationManager incorrectly shared (CORBA, 7141694)
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:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, jvanek
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	icedtea6 1.11.6, icedtea6 1.12.1, icedtea7 2.1.5, icedtea7 2.2.5, icedtea7 2.3.6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	906729

Description Stefan Cornelius 2013-02-04 13:20:53 UTC

It was discovered that the CORBA component incorrectly shared 
PresentationManagers accross different threaded groups and application
contexts. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws
to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

External Reference:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpufeb2013-1841061.html

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2013-02-04 16:34:12 UTC

Upstream commit, as included in IcedTea7 repositories:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.3/corba/rev/c1ed8145c1b8

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-04 23:56:22 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-2013:0237 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0237.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-04 23:58:13 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-2013:0236 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0236.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-08 19:16:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0246 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0246.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-08 19:27:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0247 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0247.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-08 19:37:43 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0245 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0245.html

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2013-02-14 10:14:15 UTC

Fixed in upstream IcedTea versions IcedTea6 1.11.6, and 1.12.1, and IcedTea7 2.1.5, 2.2.5, and 2.3.6:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-February/021708.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-February/021728.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-February/021905.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-February/021876.html

Note that version 2.3.5 was tagged in upstream mercurial including the security fixes, but was not released.  Only 2.3.6 was released, correcting problem introduced by security patches as included in 2.3.5.