Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-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 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR5-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-2016-10165, CVE-2017-10281, CVE-2017-10285, CVE-2017-10295, CVE-2017-10309, 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)

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 - 1367357 - CVE-2016-10165 lcms2: Out-of-bounds read in Type_MLU_Read()
• 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 - 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 - 1503319 - CVE-2017-10309 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u151 and 9.0.1 (Deployment)

CVEs

• CVE-2016-10165
• CVE-2017-10281
• CVE-2017-10285
• CVE-2017-10295
• CVE-2017-10309
• 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/#critical
• https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/