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Bug 1219265 - (CVE-2015-1916) CVE-2015-1916 IBM JDK: unspecified SSL/TLS server DoS
CVE-2015-1916 IBM JDK: unspecified SSL/TLS server DoS
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20150506,repor...
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Blocks: 1209063
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Reported: 2015-05-06 17:44 EDT by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2015-05-06 18:01 EDT (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-05-06 17:47:22 EDT
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Description Tomas Hoger 2015-05-06 17:44:09 EDT
IBM JDK version 8 SR1 corrects an unspecified denial of service flaw in the JSSE component:

Server applications which use the IBM Java Secure Socket Extension provider to accept SSL/TLS connections are vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to an unspecified vulnerability.

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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_May_2015
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21883640
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-05-06 17:47:22 EDT
According to IBM Java security alerts page, this only affected IBM Java 8, which is not currently shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  The java-1.5.0-ibm, java-1.6.0-ibm, java-1.7.0-ibm and java-1.7.1-ibm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 Supplementary were not affected by this issue.

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