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Serious Java Bug Exposes Users To Code Execution

April 12, 2010

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Once again a different attack vector, seems to the creative season for discovering bugs. I guess it’s partially due to the fact this time of year tends to be pretty quiet business wise so researchers have plenty of downtime to look at nifty ways to break things.

This might be a tough one to solve as it’s not a typical buffer overflow or programming bug per-se but more of a flaw in the way the Java Virtual Machine functions. Sun don’t consider this vulnerability to be critical, which could be a mistake on their part as that means it won’t be patched until the next patch in the cycle is released – which should be around July.

A Google researcher has published details of a Java virtual machine bug that could be used to run unauthorized programs on a computer.

The attack was disclosed Friday by Google’s Tavis Ormandy, who said he had notified Oracle’s Sun team about the flaw earlier. “They informed me that they do not consider this vulnerability to be of high enough priority to break their quarterly patch cycle,” Ormandy wrote. “I did not agree.” Oracle declined to comment on the issue. The company just released a major Java update last week and its next set of patches is due in July.

The attack could give hackers a way to run unauthorized Java programs on a victim’s machine. They can do this because Java allows developers to tell the Java virtual machine to install alternate Java libraries. By creating a malicious library and then telling the JVM to install it, an attacker could run his malicious program.

The attack was actually disclosed by a Google employee, in some articles it stated he did not wish for his company name to be disclosed but it was anyway in this article at least.

It works in a fairly roundabout way by leveraging on the fact Java allows developers to run libraries using the JVM, by installing an alternate malicious library an attacker could compromise the machine.

Oracle is making a mistake, not patching the bug immediately, said Marc Maiffret, chief security architect with FireEye, via instant message.

The bug is particularly nasty because it’s due to a design flaw in Java, rather than the type of programming error that would lead to a more common buffer-overflow attack. “It is a neat bug,” he said.

However, Java-based attacks are still rare, and rather than developing a brand-new type of attack, criminals are more likely to spend their time using known vectors such as the browser or Adobe Reader, said Russ Cooper, a senior information security analyst with Verizon Business.

“Java has not been exploited to any extent that should worry the average consumer, heck, or business for that matter,” he said via instant message.

Risk wise however, I’d have to agree it’s not particularly high as historically Java attacks aren’t really common and attackers will play the numbers game attacking whatever will yield the most infections.

The flaw affects all versions since Java SE 6 update 10 for Microsoft Windows and could possibly effect Linux users – but that hasn’t been verified yet.

More via The Reg here – Critical Java Vulnerability

Source: Network World

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Filed Under: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Secure Coding, Web Hacking Tagged With: fireeye, java, java exploit, java vulnerability, JAVA-security, tavis ormandy



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  1. Agamemnon says

    April 12, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    I tested out this POC today throughout my environment and it defintely works I can remotely have user click a link and it runs Java which could imbed any code I wanted. It doesn’t work in updates 6 and 7 for sure but updates 10-19 I’m pretty sure are all gonna suffice for this to work. Also, there are currently no signature files in Finjan for this, blink works on full on block mode and Cisco’s CSA product will let this sucker right on through..

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