Bug 1219265 (CVE-2015-1916) - CVE-2015-1916 IBM JDK: unspecified SSL/TLS server DoS
Summary: CVE-2015-1916 IBM JDK: unspecified SSL/TLS server DoS
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-1916
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1209063
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Reported: 2015-05-06 21:44 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-05-06 21:47:22 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2015-05-06 21:44:09 UTC 
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.

References:

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 21:47:22 UTC 
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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