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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2021-1298 Moderate: OpenJDK Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has issued a critical security patch for OpenJDK affecting Enterprise Linux 8. Discover additional details.
An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.
Security Fix(es):
* OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (8249906) (CVE-2021-2163)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux Java update OpenJDK

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-2163 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.noarch.rpm
x86_64: java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.i686.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-1.8.0.292.b10-1.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1298-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1298
Issue date: 2021-04-20

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux Java update OpenJDK

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1938081 - Prepare for the next quarterly OpenJDK upstream release (2021-04, 8u292) [rhel-7]

1951217 - CVE-2021-2163 OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (Libraries, 8249906)

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