Security Advisories and Notifications


 
Security Notification: (BEA05-83.00)

From: Oracle Corporation

Minor Subject: JCE 1.2.1 cert will expire 7/27/2005

Product(s) Affected: WebLogic Server, WebLogic Express, and WebLogic Platform

This notification applies in both WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express. Throughout the rest of this advisory, references to WebLogic Server apply to both products.

I. NOTIFICATION

In WebLogic Server 7.0 and WebLogic Platform 7.0, customers who wished to use JCE were instructed to download JCE 1.2 from Sun Microsystems' web site. Sun has announced that JCE 1.2.1 was signed by a certificate that is expiring on July 27th, 2005. This will affect WebLogic Server 7.0 customers that are:

  • Using JCE 1.2.1.
  • Using Java 2 Security.
Typically this is done by customers using cryptography provided by an organization other than BEA (e.g.: nCipher SSL accelerators, Bouncy Castle cryptographic providers). These customers will begin experiencing a failure of the signedBy clause for the JCE jar file on or around July 25th, depending on the time zone of the server. The server will likely run successfully until it reboots and then fail to reboot.

These customers will need to upgrade to JCE 1.2.2 which resolves this problem.

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II. INSTRUCTIONS


Applications using JCE 1.2.1 should be considered for an upgrade to JCE 1.2.2.


SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS

Oracle strongly suggests that customers apply the remedies recommended in all our security advisories. Oracle also urges customers to apply every Service/Maintenance Pack as they are released. Service/Maintenance Packs include a roll-up of all bug fixes for each version of the product, as well as each of the prior Service/Maintenance Packs. Service/Maintenance Packs and information about them can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/bea_main.html

Note: Information about securing WebLogic Server and WebLogic Express can be found at http://edocs.bea.com/wls/docs103/security.html. Specific lockdown information is provided at http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs103/lockdown/index.html. We strongly encourage you to review this documentation to ensure your server deployment is securely configured.

As a policy, if there are any security-related issues with any Oracle product, Oracle will distribute an advisory and instructions with the appropriate course of action. Because the security of your site, data, and code is our highest priority, we are committed to communicating all security-related issues clearly and openly.

All previous advisories can be viewed at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/wls-security.

Additional users who wish to register for product advisory distribution should follow the registration directions at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm.

Security issues can be reported to Oracle by following the directions at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm.

Thank you,
Oracle Corporation