RHSA-2016:1039 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR3.

Security Fix(es):

• This update fixes multiple 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-2016-0264, CVE-2016-0363, CVE-2016-0376, CVE-2016-0686, CVE-2016-0687, CVE-2016-3422, CVE-2016-3426, CVE-2016-3427, CVE-2016-3443, CVE-2016-3449)

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

All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1324044 - CVE-2016-0363 IBM JDK: insecure use of invoke method in CORBA component, incorrect CVE-2013-3009 fix
• BZ - 1327743 - CVE-2016-0686 OpenJDK: insufficient thread consistency checks in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8129952)
• BZ - 1327749 - CVE-2016-0687 OpenJDK: insufficient byte type checks (Hotspot, 8132051)
• BZ - 1328059 - CVE-2016-3426 OpenJDK: non-constant time GCM authentication tag comparison (JCE, 8143945)
• BZ - 1328210 - CVE-2016-3427 OpenJDK: unrestricted deserialization of authentication credentials (JMX, 8144430)
• BZ - 1328618 - CVE-2016-3443 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u115, 7u101 and 8u91 (2D)
• BZ - 1328619 - CVE-2016-3449 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u115, 7u101 and 8u91 (Deployment)
• BZ - 1328620 - CVE-2016-3422 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u115, 7u101 and 8u91 (2D)
• BZ - 1330986 - CVE-2016-0376 IBM JDK: insecure deserialization in CORBA, incorrect CVE-2013-5456 fix
• BZ - 1331359 - CVE-2016-0264 IBM JDK: buffer overflow vulnerability in the IBM JVM

CVEs

• CVE-2016-0264
• CVE-2016-0363
• CVE-2016-0376
• CVE-2016-0686
• CVE-2016-0687
• CVE-2016-3422
• CVE-2016-3426
• CVE-2016-3427
• CVE-2016-3443
• CVE-2016-3449

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal