Title: EGI SVG 'ALERT' [TLP:WHITE] CRITICAL risk Multiple Oracle Database
and other Oracle Vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3259, CVE-2018-3299,
CVE-2018-7489 [EGI-SVG-CVE-2018-3259]
Date: 2018-10-18
Updated: 2018-10-23
Affected software and risk
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CRITICAL risk vulnerabilities concerning the Oracle Database
Package : Oracle Database
CVE ID : CVE-2018-3259, CVE-2018-3299, CVE-2018-7489
Oracle has announced patches for multiple Vulnerabilities [R 1] including two
CVE-2018-3259, CVE-2018-3299 concerning the Oracle Database which may be
exploited remotely without authentication.
**UPDATE 2018-10-23**
This includes critical vulnerabilities concerning Java 1.7 and higher (Oracle,
some also OpenJDK).
Actions required/recommended
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Any site running the Oracle Database should update urgently if they have not
done so already.
Sites using other Oracle products should also check [R 1] and ensure any
relevant patches are applied.
**UPDATE 2018-10-22**
Services using java-1.7 or higher (either Oracle or OpenJDK) are advised to
update and restart services.
Component installation information
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See information from Oracle - e.g. [R 1]
For OpenJDK java 1.8 distributed with RedHat 6 and 7 see [R 3], [R 4]
For OpenJDK java distributed with Debian see [R 5], [R 6]
Affected software details
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See [R 1], [R 3], [R 4], [R 5], [R 6]
TLP and URL
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** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution -
see https://go.egi.eu/tlp for distribution restrictions **
URL: https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2018-3259
Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites
Comments
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Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu
If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI
you may report it by e-mail to
report-vulnerability at egi.eu
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the
procedure defined in [R 2]
Note that this has been updated and the latest version approved by the
Operations Management Board in November 2017
References
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[R 1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
[R 2] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=3145
[R 3] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2942
[R 4] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2943
[R 5] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3169
[R 6] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-3183
Credit
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SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by David Crooks from STFC who is a member
of SVG.
Timeline
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Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-2018-CVE-2018-3259]
2018-10-17 SVG alerted to this issue by David Crooks
2018-10-18 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed
2018-10-18 Brief Alert sent to sites
2018-10-23 Update to explicitly include referring to Java 1.8
Context
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This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"
The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 2] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be
correct. The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on
how the software is used.
Others may re-use this information provided they:-
1) Respect the provided TLP classification
2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group
On behalf of the EGI SVG,