RHSA-2014:0508 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated java-1.6.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now
available for 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

IBM Java SE version 6 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM
Java Software Development Kit.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime
Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. Detailed
vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM Security alerts
page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2014-0457, CVE-2014-2421,
CVE-2014-0429, CVE-2014-0461, CVE-2014-2428, CVE-2014-0446, CVE-2014-0452,
CVE-2014-0451, CVE-2014-2423, CVE-2014-2427, CVE-2014-0458, CVE-2014-2414,
CVE-2014-2412, CVE-2014-2409, CVE-2014-0460, CVE-2013-6954, CVE-2013-6629,
CVE-2014-2401, CVE-2014-0449, CVE-2014-0453, CVE-2014-2398, CVE-2014-1876,
CVE-2014-2420)

All users of java-1.6.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM Java SE 6 SR16 release. All running instances
of IBM 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/site/articles/11258

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5 x86_64
• 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 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 for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.5 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1031734 - CVE-2013-6629 libjpeg: information leak (read of uninitialized memory)
• BZ - 1045561 - CVE-2013-6954 libpng: unhandled zero-length PLTE chunk or NULL palette
• BZ - 1060907 - CVE-2014-1876 OpenJDK: insecure temporary file use in unpack200 (Libraries, 8033618)
• BZ - 1086632 - CVE-2014-2398 OpenJDK: insufficient escaping of window title string (Javadoc, 8026736)
• BZ - 1086645 - CVE-2014-0453 OpenJDK: RSA unpadding timing issues (Security, 8027766)
• BZ - 1087409 - CVE-2014-0429 OpenJDK: Incorrect mlib/raster image validation (2D, 8027841)
• BZ - 1087411 - CVE-2014-0457 OpenJDK: ServiceLoader Exception handling security bypass (Libraries, 8031394)
• BZ - 1087417 - CVE-2014-2421 OpenJDK: JPEG decoder input stream handling (2D, 8029854)
• BZ - 1087426 - CVE-2014-0461 OpenJDK: Better ScriptEngineManager ScriptEngine management (Libraries, 8036794)
• BZ - 1087427 - CVE-2014-2412 OpenJDK: AWT thread context handling (AWT, 8025010)
• BZ - 1087428 - CVE-2014-0451 OpenJDK: AWT incorrect FlavorMap seperation (AWT, 8026797)
• BZ - 1087430 - CVE-2014-0458 OpenJDK: Activation framework default command map caching (JAX-WS, 8025152)
• BZ - 1087431 - CVE-2014-2414 OpenJDK: incorrect caching of data initialized via TCCL (JAXB, 8025030)
• BZ - 1087434 - CVE-2014-2423 OpenJDK: incorrect caching of data initialized via TCCL (JAXWS, 8026188)
• BZ - 1087436 - CVE-2014-0452 OpenJDK: incorrect caching of data initialized via TCCL (JAXWS, 8026801)
• BZ - 1087439 - CVE-2014-0446 OpenJDK: Protect logger handlers (Libraries, 8029740)
• BZ - 1087441 - CVE-2014-2427 OpenJDK: remove insecure Java Sound provider caching (Sound, 8026163)
• BZ - 1087442 - CVE-2014-0460 OpenJDK: missing randomization of JNDI DNS client query IDs (JNDI, 8030731)
• BZ - 1088025 - CVE-2014-2428 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u75, 7u55 and 8u5 (Deployment)
• BZ - 1088027 - CVE-2014-2409 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u75, 7u55 and 8u5 (Deployment)
• BZ - 1088028 - CVE-2014-0449 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u75, 7u55 and 8u5 (Deployment)
• BZ - 1088030 - CVE-2014-2401 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 5.0u75, 6u75, 7u55 and 8u5 (2D)
• BZ - 1088031 - CVE-2014-2420 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u75, 7u55 and 8u5 (Deployment)

CVEs

• CVE-2013-6629
• CVE-2014-0429
• CVE-2014-2414
• CVE-2014-2412
• CVE-2014-2398
• CVE-2014-0457
• CVE-2014-0453
• CVE-2014-0452
• CVE-2014-0451
• CVE-2014-0458
• CVE-2014-2427
• CVE-2014-2421
• CVE-2014-2423
• CVE-2014-1876
• CVE-2014-0446
• CVE-2014-0460
• CVE-2014-0461
• CVE-2014-2428
• CVE-2014-2420
• CVE-2014-2401
• CVE-2014-2409
• CVE-2013-6954
• CVE-2014-0449
• CVE-2014-0878

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/