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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 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

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-FP20.

Security Fix(es):

• IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API (CVE-2018-12539)
• openssl: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
• openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
• IBM JDK: DoS in the java.math component (CVE-2018-1517)
• IBM JDK: path traversal flaw in the Diagnostic Tooling Framework (CVE-2018-1656)
• Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (Libraries) (CVE-2018-2940)
• OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (Concurrency, 8199547) (CVE-2018-2952)
• Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (JSSE) (CVE-2018-2973)
• OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting CVE-2016-0705. Upstream acknowledges Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-0705.

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 - 1310596 - CVE-2016-0705 OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code
• BZ - 1416856 - CVE-2017-3732 openssl: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64
• BZ - 1509169 - CVE-2017-3736 openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64
• BZ - 1600925 - CVE-2018-2952 OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (Concurrency, 8199547)
• BZ - 1602145 - CVE-2018-2973 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (JSSE)
• BZ - 1602146 - CVE-2018-2940 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (Libraries)
• BZ - 1618767 - CVE-2018-12539 IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API
• BZ - 1618869 - CVE-2018-1656 IBM JDK: path traversal flaw in the Diagnostic Tooling Framework
• BZ - 1618871 - CVE-2018-1517 IBM JDK: DoS in the java.math component

CVEs

• CVE-2016-0705
• CVE-2017-3732
• CVE-2017-3736
• CVE-2018-1517
• CVE-2018-1656
• CVE-2018-2940
• CVE-2018-2952
• CVE-2018-2973
• CVE-2018-12539

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important