Bug 1183020 – CVE-2014-6601 OpenJDK: class verifier insufficient invokespecial calls verification (Hotspot, 8058982)

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Bug 1183020 - (CVE-2014-6601) CVE-2014-6601 OpenJDK: class verifier insufficient invokespecial calls verification (Hotspot, 8058982)

Summary:	CVE-2014-6601 OpenJDK: class verifier insufficient invokespecial calls verifi...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-6601

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1179762
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Reported:	2015-01-16 08:18 EST by Tomas Hoger
Modified:	2017-08-16 05:54 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK verified bytecode from the class files. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
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Last Closed:	2015-02-02 07:42:30 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0067	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update	2015-01-21 21:45:27 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0068	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update	2015-01-20 22:38:26 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0069	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update	2015-01-21 21:38:44 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0079	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: java-1.7.0-oracle security update	2017-12-15 10:35:56 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0080	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: java-1.8.0-oracle security update	2017-12-15 10:34:38 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0085	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update	2015-01-26 18:10:42 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0086	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: java-1.6.0-sun security update	2017-12-15 10:35:12 EST

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Description Tomas Hoger 2015-01-16 08:18:51 EST

A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot JVM class file verifier verified invokespecial calls.  An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-20 16:57:30 EST

Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2015.  Fixed in Oracle Java SE 6u91, 7u75, and 8u31.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html#AppendixJAVA

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-20 17:39:32 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:0068 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0068.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-21 17:46:06 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0069 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0069.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-21 17:59:08 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0067 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0067.html

Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-22 07:20:49 EST

Upstream OpenJDK commits:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/d12c9850a885
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/4b26b980ec8d

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-22 16:24:41 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0080 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0080.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-22 16:35:15 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0079 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0079.html

Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-26 09:53:04 EST

This issue was fixed in IcedTea6 1.13.6 and IcedTea7 2.5.4:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-January/030488.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2015-January/030469.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-26 12:28:26 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:0086 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0086.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-26 13:12:27 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0085 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0085.html

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