KLA10957 Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Java SE

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle Java SE components. By exploiting these vulnerabilities malicious users can gain privileges and obtain sensitive information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by unauthenticater attacker having network access via multiple protocols.

Technical details

Vulnerable components are Java SE, Java SE Embedded, Jrockit. Vulnerabilities described above are related to Libraries and Networking subcomponents.

These vulnerabilities are applicable to both client and server deployment of Java.

Both vulnerabilities can be exploited via sandboxed Java applets and sandboxed Java Web Start applications. Other way to exploit given vulnerabilities is to supply data to APIs in the specified Component. In this case neither Java Web Start applications nor sandboxed Java applets are necessary – attack can be performed, for example, through a web service.

Original advisories

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory

Related products

Oracle-Java-JRE-1.7.x

Oracle-Java-JDK-1.7.x

Oracle-Java-JDK-1.8.x-3

Oracle-Java-JRE-1.8.x

Oracle-JRockit

CVE list

CVE-2016-5552 warning

CVE-2016-5546 warning

Solution

Update to the latest versions

Get Java SE

Impacts

• OSI

Obtain sensitive information. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to capturing by abuser information, critical for user or system.

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

Affected Products

• Oracle Java SE 6u131Oracle Java SE 7u121Oracle Java SE 8u112Oracle Java SE Embedded 8u111Oracle JRockit R28.3.12