Issued:
2018-09-17
Updated:
2018-09-17

RHSA-2018:2712 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Moderate: java-1.7.1-ibm security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

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Topic

An update for java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.6 and Red Hat Satellite 5.7.

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 7 Release 1 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 7 to version 7R1 SR4-FP30.

Security Fix(es):

  • IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API (CVE-2018-12539)
  • 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)

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.

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

For this update to take effect, Red Hat Satellite must be restarted ("/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite restart"). All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.7 s390x
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x

Fixes

  • 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

Red Hat Satellite 5.7

SRPM
x86_64
java-1.7.1-ibm-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 254207c07b0affa4cf0d62e1472754df8231c8bb745630d4d947900ea2b742da
java-1.7.1-ibm-devel-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4cf315e9a4dc5494181229356facbaa9349feb45093c07c7f92036c0f421cc42
s390x
java-1.7.1-ibm-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 7e0bae53ac6091cd9db9dd2dceb1b7e6917f2d1599e22568e5ef0cf1f79e93df
java-1.7.1-ibm-devel-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 38d7bfb4ae34b4252e876e6308a4fb4a5e1967dbb32208b1482a9589a2398e9d

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 6

SRPM
x86_64
java-1.7.1-ibm-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 254207c07b0affa4cf0d62e1472754df8231c8bb745630d4d947900ea2b742da
java-1.7.1-ibm-devel-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4cf315e9a4dc5494181229356facbaa9349feb45093c07c7f92036c0f421cc42
s390x
java-1.7.1-ibm-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 7e0bae53ac6091cd9db9dd2dceb1b7e6917f2d1599e22568e5ef0cf1f79e93df
java-1.7.1-ibm-devel-1.7.1.4.30-1jpp.2.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 38d7bfb4ae34b4252e876e6308a4fb4a5e1967dbb32208b1482a9589a2398e9d

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