Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1117 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2017-04-24
Updated:
2017-04-24

RHSA-2017:1117 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: java-1.8.0-oracle security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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 Moderate. 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

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 131.

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-2017-3509, CVE-2017-3511, CVE-2017-3526, CVE-2017-3533, CVE-2017-3539, CVE-2017-3544)

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 7.3 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1443007 - CVE-2017-3511 OpenJDK: untrusted extension directories search path in Launcher (JCE, 8163528)
  • BZ - 1443052 - CVE-2017-3509 OpenJDK: improper re-use of NTLM authenticated connections (Networking, 8163520)
  • BZ - 1443068 - CVE-2017-3544 OpenJDK: newline injection in the SMTP client (Networking, 8171533)
  • BZ - 1443083 - CVE-2017-3533 OpenJDK: newline injection in the FTP client (Networking, 8170222)
  • BZ - 1443097 - CVE-2017-3539 OpenJDK: MD5 allowed for jar verification (Security, 8171121)
  • BZ - 1443252 - CVE-2017-3526 OpenJDK: incomplete XML parse tree size enforcement (JAXP, 8169011)

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