Bug 952649 (CVE-2013-2421) - CVE-2013-2421 OpenJDK: Hotspot MethodHandle lookup error (Hotspot, 8009699)
Summary: CVE-2013-2421 OpenJDK: Hotspot MethodHandle lookup error (Hotspot, 8009699)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-2421
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
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-04-16 11:12 UTC by Stefan Cornelius
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: 2013-05-10 13:29:50 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
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-2013:0770 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update 2013-04-24 21:57:30 UTC

Description Stefan Cornelius 2013-04-16 11:12:06 UTC
It was discovered that the Hotspot component did not properly perform certain MethodHandle lookups. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-16 22:13:07 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.

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-17 18:43:27 UTC
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/663b5c744e82

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-17 18:46:22 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 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-17 18:48:51 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 5 Stefan Cornelius 2013-04-17 20:48:00 UTC
OpenJDK7 upstream repositories commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/663b5c744e82

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-18 18:30:30 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 7 errata-xmlrpc 2013-04-24 18:00:24 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 9 Tomas Hoger 2013-05-10 13:29:50 UTC
According to IBM Java security alerts page, this issue did not affect IBM JDKs:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#Oracle_April_16_2013_CPU


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