Bug 952387 (CVE-2013-1537) - CVE-2013-1537 OpenJDK: remote code loading enabled by default (RMI, 8001040)
Summary: CVE-2013-1537 OpenJDK: remote code loading enabled by default (RMI, 8001040)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-1537
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 950067
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Reported: 2013-04-15 20:33 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: icedtea6 1.11.10, icedtea6 1.12.5, icedtea7 2.3.9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-07-02 15:37:08 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0751 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update 2013-04-17 22:43:48 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0752 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update 2013-04-17 22:43:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0757 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-oracle security update 2013-11-13 16:10:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0758 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.6.0-sun security update 2013-11-13 15:57:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0770 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update 2013-04-24 21:57:30 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0822 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-ibm security update 2013-11-15 00:13:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0823 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.6.0-ibm security update 2013-11-13 16:10:04 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0855 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.5.0-ibm security update 2013-11-15 00:12:20 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1455 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: Red Hat Network Satellite server IBM Java Runtime security update 2013-10-23 20:30:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1456 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: Red Hat Network Satellite server IBM Java Runtime security update 2013-10-23 20:29:56 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2013-04-15 20:33:09 UTC 
RMI implementation in OpenJDK uses property java.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly, which controls whether automatic loading of classes from other sources than local CLASSPATH and location specified in the java.rmi.server.codebase property is permitted.  This property previously defaulted to false, allowing dynamic class downloading.  This could allow an attacker to make RMI server or registry to execute arbitrary untrusted code.

It was demonstrated that this can be used in combination with another Java sandbox bypass flaw to execute code in the remote rmiregistry or GlassFish Server:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Feb/18
http://www.security-explorations.com/en/SE-2012-01-details.html
http://www.security-explorations.com/materials/se-2012-01-rmi.zip

This update changes the default value of the java.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly property to true.

More details on various RMI properties can be found in:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/javarmiproperties.html
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-16 20:53:59 UTC 
Public now via Oracle Java SE CPU April 2014:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html

Fixed in Oracle Java SE 7u21 and 6u45.
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-17 11:43:57 UTC 
This change is explicitly noted in the release notes:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/7u21-relnotes-1932873.html#rmichanges

  From this release, the RMI property java.rmi.server.useCodebaseOnly is set
  to true by default. In previous releases the default value was false.

  This change of default value may cause RMI-based applications to break
  unexpectedly. The typical symptom is a stack trace that contains a
  java.rmi.UnmarshalException containing a nested
  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException.

  For more information, see RMI Enhancements.

Additional details are covered by the following "RMI Enhancements" document:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/enhancements-7.html
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-17 14:32:02 UTC 
Upstream commit, as included in IcedTea7 repositories:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea7-forest-2.3/jdk/rev/096ed306159f
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-17 17:00:19 UTC 
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/f098e2297ff1
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-17 18:45:26 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0752 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.html
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-17 18:47:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0751 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0751.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-18 18:25:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0758 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0758.html
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-18 18:28:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0757 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.html
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-24 17:59:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0770 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0770.html
Comment 10 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-26 12:18:24 UTC 
Fixed in IcedTea6 versions 1.11.10 and 1.12.5, and IcedTea7 version 2.3.9:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022796.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022890.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022985.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-14 17:59:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0823 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0823.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-14 18:03:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0822 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0822.html
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-22 18:43:55 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0855 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0855.html
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-23 16:40:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5

Via RHSA-2013:1456 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1456.html
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-23 16:51:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4

Via RHSA-2013:1455 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1455.html
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