RHSA-2015:2518 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated java-1.5.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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 J2SE version 5.0 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. Further information
about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java Security alerts page, listed
in the References section. (CVE-2015-4805, CVE-2015-4806, CVE-2015-4843,
CVE-2015-4844, CVE-2015-4860, CVE-2015-4872, CVE-2015-4883, CVE-2015-4902,
CVE-2015-4903)

Red Hat would like to thank Andrea Palazzo of Truel IT for reporting the
CVE-2015-4806 issue.

IBM Java SDK and JRE 5.0 will not receive software updates after September
2015. This date is referred to as the End of Service (EOS) date. Customers
are advised to migrate to current versions of IBM Java at this time. IBM
Java SDK and JRE versions 6 and 7 are available via the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary content sets and will continue to receive
updates based on IBM's lifecycle policy, linked to in the References
section.

Customers can also consider OpenJDK, an open source implementation of
the Java SE specification. OpenJDK is available by default on supported
hardware architectures.

All users of java-1.5.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM J2SE 5.0 SR16-FP14 release. All running
instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7 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 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 6.7 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 Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7 ppc64
• 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 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.7 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1233687 - CVE-2015-4806 OpenJDK: HttpURLConnection header restriction bypass (Libraries, 8130193)
• BZ - 1273053 - CVE-2015-4843 OpenJDK: java.nio Buffers integer overflow issues (Libraries, 8130891)
• BZ - 1273304 - CVE-2015-4883 OpenJDK: incorrect access control context used in DGCClient (RMI, 8076413)
• BZ - 1273308 - CVE-2015-4860 OpenJDK: incorrect access control context used in DGCImpl (RMI, 8080688)
• BZ - 1273311 - CVE-2015-4805 OpenJDK: missing checks for proper initialization in ObjectStreamClass (Serialization, 8103671)
• BZ - 1273318 - CVE-2015-4844 ICU: missing boundary checks in layout engine (OpenJDK 2D, 8132042)
• BZ - 1273496 - CVE-2015-4903 OpenJDK: insufficient proxy class checks in RemoteObjectInvocationHandler (RMI, 8076339)
• BZ - 1273734 - CVE-2015-4872 OpenJDK: incomplete constraints enforcement by AlgorithmChecker (Security, 8131291)
• BZ - 1273860 - CVE-2015-4902 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u105, 7u91 and 8u65 (Deployment)

CVEs

• CVE-2015-4902
• CVE-2015-4843
• CVE-2015-4872
• CVE-2015-4860
• CVE-2015-4844
• CVE-2015-4883
• CVE-2015-4903
• CVE-2015-4806
• CVE-2015-4805

References

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