RHSA-2017:0336 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 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 Release 1 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 7 to version 7R1 SR4-FP1.

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-2016-2183, CVE-2016-5546, CVE-2016-5547, CVE-2016-5548, CVE-2016-5549, CVE-2016-5552, CVE-2017-3231, CVE-2017-3241, CVE-2017-3252, CVE-2017-3253, CVE-2017-3259, CVE-2017-3261, CVE-2017-3272, CVE-2017-3289)

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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1369383 - CVE-2016-2183 SSL/TLS: Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32)
• BZ - 1413554 - CVE-2017-3272 OpenJDK: insufficient protected field access checks in atomic field updaters (Libraries, 8165344)
• BZ - 1413562 - CVE-2017-3289 OpenJDK: insecure class construction (Hotspot, 8167104)
• BZ - 1413583 - CVE-2017-3253 OpenJDK: imageio PNGImageReader failed to honor ignoreMetadata for iTXt and zTXt chunks (2D, 8166988)
• BZ - 1413653 - CVE-2017-3261 OpenJDK: integer overflow in SocketOutputStream boundary check (Networking, 8164147)
• BZ - 1413717 - CVE-2017-3231 OpenJDK: URLClassLoader insufficient access control checks (Networking, 8151934)
• BZ - 1413764 - CVE-2016-5547 OpenJDK: missing ObjectIdentifier length check (Libraries, 8168705)
• BZ - 1413882 - CVE-2016-5552 OpenJDK: incorrect URL parsing in URLStreamHandler (Networking, 8167223)
• BZ - 1413906 - CVE-2017-3252 OpenJDK: LdapLoginModule incorrect userDN extraction (JAAS, 8161743)
• BZ - 1413911 - CVE-2016-5546 OpenJDK: incorrect ECDSA signature extraction from the DER input (Libraries, 8168714)
• BZ - 1413920 - CVE-2016-5548 OpenJDK: DSA implementation timing attack (Libraries, 8168728)
• BZ - 1413923 - CVE-2016-5549 OpenJDK: ECDSA implementation timing attack (Libraries, 8168724)
• BZ - 1413955 - CVE-2017-3241 OpenJDK: untrusted input deserialization in RMI registry and DCG (RMI, 8156802)
• BZ - 1414163 - CVE-2017-3259 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u141, 7u131, and 8u121 (Deployment)

CVEs

• CVE-2016-2183
• CVE-2016-5546
• CVE-2016-5547
• CVE-2016-5548
• CVE-2016-5549
• CVE-2016-5552
• CVE-2017-3231
• CVE-2017-3241
• CVE-2017-3252
• CVE-2017-3253
• CVE-2017-3259
• CVE-2017-3261
• CVE-2017-3272
• CVE-2017-3289

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/