Bug 1685725 (CVE-2018-1890) - CVE-2018-1890 IBM JDK: local privilege escalation via insecure RPATHs
Summary: CVE-2018-1890 IBM JDK: local privilege escalation via insecure RPATHs
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-1890
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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Reported: 2019-03-05 22:15 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-02-25 16:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-03-05 22:16:44 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2019-03-05 22:15:50 UTC 
IBM JDK 8 SR5 FP20 (8.0.5.30) fixes a flaw described by upstream as:

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users.

References:

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10873332
https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/#IBM_Security_Update_March_2019
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2019-03-05 22:16:44 UTC 
This issue only affected the version of IBM JDK for AIX operating system.
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