RHSA-2017:2530 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.6.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 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 6 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 6 to version 6 SR16-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 Vulnerabilities page listed in the References section. (CVE-2017-10053, CVE-2017-10067, CVE-2017-10087, CVE-2017-10089, CVE-2017-10096, CVE-2017-10101, CVE-2017-10102, CVE-2017-10105, CVE-2017-10107, CVE-2017-10108, CVE-2017-10109, CVE-2017-10110, CVE-2017-10115, CVE-2017-10116, CVE-2017-10243)

IBM Java SDK and JRE 6 will not receive software updates after September 2017. This date is referred to as the End of Service (EOS) date. Customers are advised to migrate to current versions of IBM Java at this time. IBM Java SDK and JRE versions 7 and 8 are available via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary content sets and will continue to receive updates based on IBM's lifecycle policy, linked to in the References section.

Customers can also consider OpenJDK, an open source implementation of the Java SE specification. OpenJDK is available by default on supported hardware architectures.

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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1471266 - CVE-2017-10107 OpenJDK: insufficient access control checks in ActivationID (RMI, 8173697)
• BZ - 1471270 - CVE-2017-10089 OpenJDK: insufficient access control checks in ServiceRegistry (ImageIO, 8172461)
• BZ - 1471521 - CVE-2017-10087 OpenJDK: insufficient access control checks in ThreadPoolExecutor (Libraries, 8172204)
• BZ - 1471523 - CVE-2017-10110 OpenJDK: insufficient access control checks in ImageWatched (AWT, 8174098)
• BZ - 1471527 - CVE-2017-10101 OpenJDK: unrestricted access to com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver (JAXP, 8173286)
• BZ - 1471528 - CVE-2017-10096 OpenJDK: insufficient access control checks in XML transformations (JAXP, 8172469)
• BZ - 1471535 - CVE-2017-10067 OpenJDK: JAR verifier incorrect handling of missing digest (Security, 8169392)
• BZ - 1471670 - CVE-2017-10109 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation in CodeSource deserialization (Serialization, 8174113)
• BZ - 1471738 - CVE-2017-10116 OpenJDK: LDAPCertStore following referrals to non-LDAP URLs (Security, 8176067)
• BZ - 1471851 - CVE-2017-10115 OpenJDK: DSA implementation timing attack (JCE, 8175106)
• BZ - 1471888 - CVE-2017-10108 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation in BasicAttribute deserialization (Serialization, 8174105)
• BZ - 1471889 - CVE-2017-10053 OpenJDK: reading of unprocessed image data in JPEGImageReader (2D, 8169209)
• BZ - 1472345 - CVE-2017-10102 OpenJDK: incorrect handling of references in DGC (RMI, 8163958)
• BZ - 1472666 - CVE-2017-10243 OpenJDK: insecure XML parsing in wsdlimport (JAX-WS, 8182054)
• BZ - 1472667 - CVE-2017-10105 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u161, 7u151, and 8u141 (Deployment)

CVEs

• CVE-2017-10053
• CVE-2017-10067
• CVE-2017-10087
• CVE-2017-10089
• CVE-2017-10096
• CVE-2017-10101
• CVE-2017-10102
• CVE-2017-10105
• CVE-2017-10107
• CVE-2017-10108
• CVE-2017-10109
• CVE-2017-10110
• CVE-2017-10115
• CVE-2017-10116
• CVE-2017-10243

References

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