RHSA-2016:1589 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.7.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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 7 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java
Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 7 to version 7 SR9-FP50.

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-2016-3511, CVE-2016-3598)

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 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 1356971 - CVE-2016-3598 OpenJDK: incorrect handling of MethodHandles.dropArguments() argument (Libraries, 8155985)
• BZ - 1358168 - CVE-2016-3511 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u111 and 8u101 (Deployment)

CVEs

• CVE-2016-3511
• CVE-2016-3598

References

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