Bug 1568966 – CVE-2018-1417 IBM JDK: J9 JVM allows untrusted code running under a security manager to elevate its privileges

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Bug 1568966 - (CVE-2018-1417) CVE-2018-1417 IBM JDK: J9 JVM allows untrusted code running under a security manager to elevate its privileges

Summary:	CVE-2018-1417 IBM JDK: J9 JVM allows untrusted code running under a security ...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2018-1417

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1546135 1546136 1546137 1546138 1546140 1546141 1546142 1546143 1549401 1549402
Blocks:	1568967
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Reported:	2018-04-18 09:00 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2018-06-19 07:02 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	java-1.7.1-ibm-1.7.1.4.20, java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.5.10
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Last Closed:	2018-04-20 17:09:35 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1463	None	None	None	2018-05-15 11:32 EDT

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Description Adam Mariš 2018-04-18 09:00:23 EDT

Under certain circumstances, a flaw in the J9 JVM (IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 7.1 and 8.0) allows untrusted code running under a security manager to elevate its privileges.

External References:

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138823

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2018-04-20 17:01:19 EDT

Additional references:

https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/#IBM_Security_Update_February_2018
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22012965

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2018-04-20 17:09:35 EDT

IBM JDK packages shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary 6 and 7 were previously updated to fixed upstream version via the following errata:

java-1.8.0-ibm
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0351
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0352

java-1.7.1-ibm
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0458
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0521

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-15 11:32:30 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.8

Via RHSA-2018:1463 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1463

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