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Red Hat RHSA-2020-2970-01 Important: Java 11 OpenJDK Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle highlights a critical java-11-openjdk patch focusing on numerous vulnerabilities for Enterprise Systems.
An update for java-11-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of OpenJDK Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

The java-11-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 11 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 11 Java Software Development Kit.
Security Fix(es):
* OpenJDK: Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access (Libraries, 8238920) (CVE-2020-14583)
* OpenJDK: Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations (2D, 8240119) (CVE-2020-14593)
* OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of access control context in ForkJoinPool (Libraries, 8237117) (CVE-2020-14556)
* OpenJDK: Excessive memory usage in ImageIO TIFF plugin (ImageIO, 8233239) (CVE-2020-14562)
* OpenJDK: Incomplete interface type checks in Graal compiler (Hotspot, 8236867) (CVE-2020-14573)
* OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature (JAXP, 8242136) (CVE-2020-14621)
* OpenJDK: HostnameChecker does not ensure X.509 certificate names are in normalized form (JSSE, 8237592) (CVE-2020-14577)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Enhancement(s):
* Add -static-libs subpackage with statically linked OpenJDK libraries (BZ#1848701)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat access control Important memory usage java-11-openjdk boundary checks

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14556 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14562 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14573 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14577 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14583 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14593 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14621 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: java-11-openjdk-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: java-11-openjdk-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-debuginfo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-debugsource-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-demo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-devel-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-devel-debuginfo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-headless-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-headless-debuginfo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-javadoc-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-javadoc-zip-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-jmods-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-src-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm java-11-openjdk-static-libs-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: java-11-openjdk-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-debuginfo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-debugsource-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-demo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-devel-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-devel-debuginfo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-headless-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm java-11-openjdk-headless-debuginfo-11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2970-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2970
Issue date: 2020-07-16

Topic

An update for java-11-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat access control Important memory usage java-11-openjdk boundary checks

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1856448 - CVE-2020-14583 OpenJDK: Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access (Libraries, 8238920)

1856784 - CVE-2020-14593 OpenJDK: Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations (2D, 8240119)

1856810 - CVE-2020-14562 OpenJDK: Excessive memory usage in ImageIO TIFF plugin (ImageIO, 8233239)

1856885 - CVE-2020-14621 OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature (JAXP, 8242136)

1856896 - CVE-2020-14556 OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of access control context in ForkJoinPool (Libraries, 8237117)

1856951 - CVE-2020-14573 OpenJDK: Incomplete interface type checks in Graal compiler (Hotspot, 8236867)

1856988 - CVE-2020-14577 OpenJDK: HostnameChecker does not ensure X.509 certificate names are in normalized form (JSSE, 8237592)

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