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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-3698

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2007-3698

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/11/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 1 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Updates 7 through 11, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_11 through 1.4.2_14, when using JSSE for SSL/TLS support, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certain SSL/TLS handshake requests.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ibmjava2-jre
  • suse-upgrade-ibmjava2-sdk
  • suse-upgrade-ibmjava5-jre
  • suse-upgrade-ibmjava5-sdk

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