CVE-2013-2423 Information

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 17 and earlier and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to HotSpot. NOTE: the previous information is from the April 2013 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from the original researcher that this vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass permission checks by the MethodHandles method and modify arbitrary public final fields using reflection and type confusion as demonstrated using integer and double fields to disable the security manager.

Reference

http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/2013/04/22/security-icedtea-2-3-9-for-openjdk-7-released/ http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/04/java-is-so-confusing.html http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-dev/jdk/rev/b453d9be6b3f http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00099.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://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=acd2dd6d-1028-4996-95df-efa42ac237f0 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24976 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=952398 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16700 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0130