Bug 975124 (CVE-2013-2445)

Summary: CVE-2013-2445 OpenJDK: Better handling of memory allocation errors (Hotspot, 7158805)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Stefan Cornelius <scorneli>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dbhole, jlieskov, jvanek, security-response-team
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Description Stefan Cornelius 2013-06-17 16:28:26 UTC
Various memory allocating parts of the Hotspot component did not correctly handle out-of-memory errors. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to terminate the Java VM.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-19 13:38:17 UTC
External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpujun2013-1899847.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-20 00:05:42 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0958 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0958.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-20 00:10:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0957 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0957.html

Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2013-06-20 11:57:03 UTC
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/ed3ac73a70ab

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-20 14:53:24 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-2013:0963 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0963.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-03 17:11:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1014 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1014.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-04-17 11:34:30 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0414 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0414.html