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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023-0005-01 Crucial: BCEL Security Patch

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Calendar Grey January 2, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial bcel security patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, assessed as critical, affecting Java bytecode files.
An update for bcel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important bcel arbitrary bytecode java class

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: bcel-6.4.1-9.el9_1.src.rpm
noarch: bcel-6.4.1-9.el9_1.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-2023:0005-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0005
Issue date: 2023-01-02

Topic

An update for bcel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important bcel arbitrary bytecode java class

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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