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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2022-8958-01 Critical: BCEL Code Exec

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ensure the safety of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 by applying the crucial bcel update that mitigates risks associated with out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities.
An update for bcel 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

Summary

The Byte Code Engineering Library (Apache Commons BCEL) is intended to give users a convenient way to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class).
Security Fix(es):
* Apache-Commons-BCEL: arbitrary bytecode produced via out-of-bounds writing (CVE-2022-42920)
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 critical risk arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise bcel update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42920 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
Source: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm bcel-javadoc-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm bcel-javadoc-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
Source: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm bcel-javadoc-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.src.rpm
noarch: bcel-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):
noarch: bcel-javadoc-5.2-19.el7_9.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:8958-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8958
Issue date: 2022-12-13

Topic

An update for bcel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical risk arbitrary code execution Red Hat Enterprise bcel update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

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

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

Bugs Fixed

2142707 - CVE-2022-42920 Apache-Commons-BCEL: arbitrary bytecode produced via out-of-bounds writing

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