RHSA-2016:0101 - 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.

Red Hat Product Security 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. Further information
about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java Security alerts page, listed
in the References section. (CVE-2015-5041, CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2015-7981,
CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8472, CVE-2015-8540, CVE-2016-0402, CVE-2016-0448,
CVE-2016-0466, CVE-2016-0483, CVE-2016-0494)

Note: This update also disallows the use of the MD5 hash algorithm in the
certification path processing. The use of MD5 can be re-enabled by removing
MD5 from the jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms security property defined in
the java.security file.

All users of java-1.6.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM Java SE 6 SR16-FP20 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.

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 - 1276416 - CVE-2015-7981 libpng: Out-of-bounds read in png_convert_to_rfc1123
• BZ - 1281756 - CVE-2015-8126 CVE-2015-8472 libpng: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in png_get_PLTE/png_set_PLTE functions
• BZ - 1289841 - CVE-2015-7575 TLS 1.2 Transcipt Collision attacks against MD5 in key exchange protocol (SLOTH)
• BZ - 1291312 - CVE-2015-8540 libpng: underflow read in png_check_keyword()
• BZ - 1298906 - CVE-2016-0494 ICU: integer signedness issue in IndicRearrangementProcessor (OpenJDK 2D, 8140543)
• BZ - 1298957 - CVE-2016-0402 OpenJDK: URL deserialization inconsistencies (Networking, 8059054)
• BZ - 1299073 - CVE-2016-0448 OpenJDK: logging of RMI connection secrets (JMX, 8130710)
• BZ - 1299385 - CVE-2016-0466 OpenJDK: insufficient enforcement of totalEntitySizeLimit (JAXP, 8133962)
• BZ - 1299441 - CVE-2016-0483 OpenJDK: incorrect boundary check in JPEG decoder (AWT, 8139017)
• BZ - 1302689 - CVE-2015-5041 IBM JDK: J9 JVM allows code to invoke non-public interface methods

CVEs

• CVE-2015-7981
• CVE-2015-8472
• CVE-2015-8126
• CVE-2015-7575
• CVE-2016-0448
• CVE-2016-0483
• CVE-2016-0494
• CVE-2016-0402
• CVE-2016-0466
• CVE-2015-5041
• CVE-2015-8540

References

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