Bug 1031471 (CVE-2013-4578) - CVE-2013-4578 OpenJDK: jarsigner does not detect unsigned bytecode injected into signed jars
Summary: CVE-2013-4578 OpenJDK: jarsigner does not detect unsigned bytecode injected i...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-4578
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1029725
Blocks: 1031472
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Reported: 2013-11-18 04:17 UTC by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified: 2023-05-12 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-09-09 02:22:51 UTC
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Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2013-11-18 04:17:06 UTC
It has been identified that it is possible to inject malicious unsigned bytecode into a signed JAR without failing jarsigner verification. This flaw could be exploited in environments where contents of a verified JAR is considered trusted and unpacked for use.

Note that if the signed JAR is used at runtime, with signature intact, a fatal runtime exception is thrown.

Comment 2 David Jorm 2013-11-18 04:24:42 UTC
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Arun Babu Neelicattu of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2015-02-08 22:34:13 UTC
This was fixed publicly by upstream

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/d5f36e1c927e

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2016-09-09 20:26:07 UTC
(In reply to Kurt Seifried from comment #3)
> This was fixed publicly by upstream
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/jdk/rev/d5f36e1c927e

The fix was included in OpenJDK, Oracle JDK and IBM JDK updates released to address January 2014 CPU security issues.  Upstream considered it security hardening rather than vulnerability fix.


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