Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58203
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0166
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2007:0166. IBM's 1.4.2 SR8 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit. A flaw in GIF image handling was found in the SUN Java Runtime Environment that has now been reported as also affecting IBM Java 2. An untrusted applet or application could use this flaw to elevate its privileges and potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2007-0243) All users of java-1.4.2-ibm should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain IBM's 1.4.2 SR8 Java release which resolves this issue. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0166.html http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/ http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.8
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-0243 http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00001.html http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/advisory/242 BugTraq ID: 22085 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22085 Bugtraq: 20070117 ZDI-07-005: Sun Microsystems Java GIF File Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457159/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20070121 Sun Microsystems Java GIF File Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability Prove Of Concept Exploit (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457638/100/0/threaded Cert/CC Advisory: TA07-022A http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-022A.html CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#388289 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/388289 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-07.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-08.xml HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBUX02196 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00876579 HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT071318 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177 http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-005.html http://osvdb.org/32834 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11073 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0166.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0167.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0956.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0261.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1017520 http://secunia.com/advisories/23757 http://secunia.com/advisories/24189 http://secunia.com/advisories/24202 http://secunia.com/advisories/24468 http://secunia.com/advisories/24993 http://secunia.com/advisories/25283 http://secunia.com/advisories/26049 http://secunia.com/advisories/26119 http://secunia.com/advisories/26645 http://secunia.com/advisories/27203 http://secunia.com/advisories/28115 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2158 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102760-1 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2007:045 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_45_java.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0211 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0936 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1814 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4224 XForce ISS Database: jre-gif-bo(31537) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31537
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