Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-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 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

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 SR4-FP5.

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 Vulnerabilities page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843, CVE-2017-1289, CVE-2017-3509, CVE-2017-3511, 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 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 - 1402345 - CVE-2016-9840 zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c
• BZ - 1402346 - CVE-2016-9841 zlib: Out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inffast.c
• BZ - 1402348 - CVE-2016-9842 zlib: Undefined left shift of negative number
• BZ - 1402351 - CVE-2016-9843 zlib: Big-endian out-of-bounds pointer
• 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 - 1449603 - CVE-2017-1289 IBM JDK: XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data

CVEs

• CVE-2016-9840
• CVE-2016-9841
• CVE-2016-9842
• CVE-2016-9843
• CVE-2017-1289
• CVE-2017-3509
• CVE-2017-3511
• CVE-2017-3533
• CVE-2017-3539
• CVE-2017-3544

References

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