CVE-2013-2421 Information

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier and OpenJDK 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality integrity and availability via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from another vendor that this issue is related to incorrect MethodHandle lookups which allows remote attackers to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Reference

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/ http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/25/security-icedtea-1-11-11-1-12-5-for-openjdk-6-released/ http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/hotspot/rev/663b5c744e82 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-05/msg00017.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.html http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-April/022796.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0752.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0757.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:145 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:161 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuapr2013-1928497.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1806-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-107A https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952649 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16258 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0124 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130