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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1475 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2016-07-21
Updated:
2016-07-21

RHSA-2016:1475 - Security Advisory

  • Overview

Synopsis

Critical: java-1.8.0-oracle security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

[Updated 12 September 2016]
This advisory has been updated to push packages into the Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Compute Node channels. The packages included in this revised update have not been changed in any way from the packages included in the original advisory.

Description

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

This update upgrades Oracle Java SE 8 to version 8 Update 101.

Security Fix(es):

  • This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in the Oracle Java Runtime Environment and the Oracle Java Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2016-3458, CVE-2016-3498, CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3503, CVE-2016-3508, CVE-2016-3511, CVE-2016-3550, CVE-2016-3552, CVE-2016-3587, CVE-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3606, CVE-2016-3610)

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 Oracle Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) 6 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) 6 i386
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Client) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Client) 6 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Client) 6 i386
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Compute Node) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Compute Node) 6 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Workstation) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Workstation) 6 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Workstation) 6 i386
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Compute Node) - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) - Extended Update Support 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1356963 - CVE-2016-3606 OpenJDK: insufficient bytecode verification (Hotspot, 8155981)
  • BZ - 1356971 - CVE-2016-3598 OpenJDK: incorrect handling of MethodHandles.dropArguments() argument (Libraries, 8155985)
  • BZ - 1356987 - CVE-2016-3587 OpenJDK: insufficient protection of MethodHandle.invokeBasic() (Hotspot, 8154475)
  • BZ - 1356994 - CVE-2016-3610 OpenJDK: insufficient value count check in MethodHandles.filterReturnValue() (Libraries, 8158571)
  • BZ - 1357008 - CVE-2016-3500 OpenJDK: maximum XML name limit not applied to namespace URIs (JAXP, 8148872)
  • BZ - 1357015 - CVE-2016-3508 OpenJDK: missing entity replacement limits (JAXP, 8149962)
  • BZ - 1357494 - CVE-2016-3458 OpenJDK: insufficient restrictions on the use of custom ValueHandler (CORBA, 8079718)
  • BZ - 1357506 - CVE-2016-3550 OpenJDK: integer overflows in bytecode streams (Hotspot, 8152479)
  • BZ - 1358167 - CVE-2016-3552 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u101 (Install)
  • BZ - 1358168 - CVE-2016-3511 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u111 and 8u101 (Deployment)
  • BZ - 1358169 - CVE-2016-3503 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u121, 7u111, and 8u101 (Install)
  • BZ - 1358170 - CVE-2016-3498 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u111 and 8u101 (JavaFX)

CVEs

  • CVE-2016-3458
  • CVE-2016-3498
  • CVE-2016-3500
  • CVE-2016-3503
  • CVE-2016-3508
  • CVE-2016-3511
  • CVE-2016-3550
  • CVE-2016-3552
  • CVE-2016-3587
  • CVE-2016-3598
  • CVE-2016-3606
  • CVE-2016-3610

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
  • http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html#AppendixJAVA
  • http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u101-relnotes-3021761.html

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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