Bug 865350 (CVE-2012-5070) - CVE-2012-5070 OpenJDK: EnvHelp information disclosure (JMX, 7158796)
Summary: CVE-2012-5070 OpenJDK: EnvHelp information disclosure (JMX, 7158796)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-5070
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: 862579
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-11 09:38 UTC by Stefan Cornelius
Modified: 2021-02-23 13:40 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: icedtea7 2.1.3, icedtea7 2.2.3, icedtea7 2.3.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-11-16 08:37:48 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1386 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update 2012-11-14 00:28:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1391 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-oracle security update 2012-10-18 20:44:09 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1467 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-ibm security update 2012-11-16 02:06:24 UTC

Description Stefan Cornelius 2012-10-11 09:38:04 UTC 
It was disovered that the com.sun.jmx.remote.util.EnvHelp class in OpenJDK could perform certain actions in an insecure manner. A malicious Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to disclose sensitive information.A malicious Java application or applet could use this flaw to disclose possibly sensitive information.
Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2012-10-17 09:59:38 UTC 
Fixed now in Oracle JDK 7u9.

External Reference:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-17 16:10:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1386.html
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2012-10-17 17:01:26 UTC 
Fix included in IcedTea7 versions 2.1.3, 2.2.3 and 2.3.3:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2012-October/020571.html
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.3/jdk/rev/da0ee7f1af26
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-18 16:45:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1391 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1391.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-15 21:08:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1467 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1467.html
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