- Issued:
- 2012-02-16
- Updated:
- 2012-02-16
RHSA-2012:0139 - Security Advisory
Synopsis
Critical: java-1.6.0-sun security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Critical
Topic
Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,
which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability
from the CVE links in the References section.
Description
The Sun 1.6.0 Java release includes the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and
the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit.
This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime
Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further
information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Java SE Critical
Patch page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2011-3563,
CVE-2011-3571, CVE-2011-5035, CVE-2012-0498, CVE-2012-0499, CVE-2012-0500,
CVE-2012-0501, CVE-2012-0502, CVE-2012-0503, CVE-2012-0505, CVE-2012-0506)
All users of java-1.6.0-sun are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which provide JDK and JRE 6 Update 31 and resolve these issues.
All running instances of Sun Java must be restarted for the update to take
effect.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 788606 - CVE-2011-5035 OpenJDK: HttpServer no header count limit (Lightweight HTTP Server, 7126960)
- BZ - 788624 - CVE-2012-0501 OpenJDK: off-by-one bug in ZIP reading code (JRE, 7118283)
- BZ - 788976 - CVE-2012-0503 OpenJDK: unrestricted use of TimeZone.setDefault() (i18n, 7110687)
- BZ - 788994 - CVE-2011-3571 OpenJDK: AtomicReferenceArray insufficient array type check (Concurrency, 7082299)
- BZ - 789295 - CVE-2011-3563 OpenJDK: JavaSound incorrect bounds check (Sound, 7088367)
- BZ - 789297 - CVE-2012-0502 OpenJDK: KeyboardFocusManager focus stealing (AWT, 7110683)
- BZ - 789299 - CVE-2012-0505 OpenJDK: incomplete info in the deserialization exception (Serialization, 7110700)
- BZ - 789300 - CVE-2012-0506 OpenJDK: mutable repository identifiers (CORBA, 7110704)
- BZ - 790720 - CVE-2012-0498 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u31 and 7u3 (2D)
- BZ - 790722 - CVE-2012-0499 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u31 and 7u3 (2D)
- BZ - 790724 - CVE-2012-0500 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u31 and 7u3 (Deployment)
CVEs
The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
