Bug 975126 (CVE-2013-2461)

Summary: CVE-2013-2461 OpenJDK: Missing check for valid DOMCanonicalizationMethod canonicalization algorithm (Libraries, 8014281)
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 16:31:56 UTC
It was discovered that the DOMCanonicalizationMethod did not properly verify the canonicalization algorithm. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to bypass correct XML signature verification.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-19 14:19:41 UTC
External References:

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

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-20 00:06:02 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 00:10:14 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 12:01:36 UTC
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/abe9ea5a50d2

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-20 14:53:37 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 17:12:03 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 11:34:38 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