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An update for java-1.7.0-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 Important. 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 7 includes the Oracle Java Runtime Environment and the Oracle Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades Oracle Java SE 7 to version 7 Update 161.

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-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843, CVE-2016-10165, CVE-2017-10274, CVE-2017-10281, CVE-2017-10285, CVE-2017-10293, CVE-2017-10295, CVE-2017-10345, CVE-2017-10346, CVE-2017-10347, CVE-2017-10348, CVE-2017-10349, CVE-2017-10350, CVE-2017-10355, CVE-2017-10356, CVE-2017-10357, CVE-2017-10388)

Note: Starting with this update, Java web browser plugin and Java Web Start application are no longer included with Oracle Java SE 7. Refer to the Releases Notes and the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap pages linked to in the References section for further information about this change.

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 7.4 x86_64
• Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1367357 - CVE-2016-10165 lcms2: Out-of-bounds read in Type_MLU_Read()
• 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 - 1501868 - CVE-2017-10285 OpenJDK: incorrect privilege use when handling unreferenced objects (RMI, 8174966)
• BZ - 1501873 - CVE-2017-10346 OpenJDK: insufficient loader constraints checks for invokespecial (Hotspot, 8180711)
• BZ - 1502038 - CVE-2017-10388 OpenJDK: use of unprotected sname in Kerberos client (Libraries, 8178794)
• BZ - 1502053 - CVE-2017-10274 OpenJDK: CardImpl incorrect state handling (Smart Card IO, 8169026)
• BZ - 1502611 - CVE-2017-10349 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation in PredicatedNodeTest deserialization (JAXP, 8181327)
• BZ - 1502614 - CVE-2017-10357 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation in ObjectInputStream deserialization (Serialization, 8181597)
• BZ - 1502629 - CVE-2017-10348 OpenJDK: multiple unbounded memory allocations in deserialization (Libraries, 8181432)
• BZ - 1502632 - CVE-2017-10347 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation in SimpleTimeZone deserialization (Serialization, 8181323)
• BZ - 1502640 - CVE-2017-10350 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation in JAXWSExceptionBase deserialization (JAX-WS, 8181100)
• BZ - 1502649 - CVE-2017-10281 OpenJDK: multiple unbounded memory allocations in deserialization (Serialization, 8174109)
• BZ - 1502687 - CVE-2017-10295 OpenJDK: HTTP client insufficient check for newline in URLs (Networking, 8176751)
• BZ - 1502858 - CVE-2017-10345 OpenJDK: unbounded resource use in JceKeyStore deserialization (Serialization, 8181370)
• BZ - 1502869 - CVE-2017-10355 OpenJDK: no default network operations timeouts in FtpClient (Networking, 8181612)
• BZ - 1503169 - CVE-2017-10356 OpenJDK: weak protection of key stores against brute forcing (Security, 8181692)
• BZ - 1503320 - CVE-2017-10293 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u171, 7u161, 8u151, and 9.0.1 (Javadoc)

CVEs

• CVE-2016-9840
• CVE-2016-9841
• CVE-2016-9842
• CVE-2016-9843
• CVE-2016-10165
• CVE-2017-10274
• CVE-2017-10281
• CVE-2017-10285
• CVE-2017-10293
• CVE-2017-10295
• CVE-2017-10345
• CVE-2017-10346
• CVE-2017-10347
• CVE-2017-10348
• CVE-2017-10349
• CVE-2017-10350
• CVE-2017-10355
• CVE-2017-10356
• CVE-2017-10357
• CVE-2017-10388

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html#AppendixJAVA
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaseproducts/documentation/javase7supportreleasenotes-1601161.html#R170_161
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html