Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3001 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-24
Updated:
2018-10-24

RHSA-2018:3001 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: java-1.7.0-oracle security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update for java-1.7.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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

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 201.

Security Fix(es):

  • OpenJDK: Improper field access checks (Hotspot, 8199226) (CVE-2018-3169)
  • OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of the trustURLCodebase restriction (JNDI, 8199177) (CVE-2018-3149)
  • OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of unsigned attributes in signed Jar manifests (Security, 8194534) (CVE-2018-3136)
  • OpenJDK: Leak of sensitive header data via HTTP redirect (Networking, 8196902) (CVE-2018-3139)
  • OpenJDK: Missing endpoint identification algorithm check during TLS session resumption (JSSE, 8202613) (CVE-2018-3180)
  • OpenJDK: Infinite loop in RIFF format reader (Sound, 8205361) (CVE-2018-3214)
  • libpng: Integer overflow and resultant divide-by-zero in pngrutil.c:png_check_chunk_length() allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-13785)

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

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 Client) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Compute Node) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Workstation) 7 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Compute Node) - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
  • Oracle Java (Restricted Maintenance) (for RHEL Server) - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1599943 - CVE-2018-13785 libpng: Integer overflow and resultant divide-by-zero in pngrutil.c:png_check_chunk_length() allows for denial of service
  • BZ - 1639293 - CVE-2018-3169 OpenJDK: Improper field access checks (Hotspot, 8199226)
  • BZ - 1639301 - CVE-2018-3214 OpenJDK: Infinite loop in RIFF format reader (Sound, 8205361)
  • BZ - 1639442 - CVE-2018-3139 OpenJDK: Leak of sensitive header data via HTTP redirect (Networking, 8196902)
  • BZ - 1639484 - CVE-2018-3180 OpenJDK: Missing endpoint identification algorithm check during TLS session resumption (JSSE, 8202613)
  • BZ - 1639755 - CVE-2018-3136 OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of unsigned attributes in signed Jar manifests (Security, 8194534)
  • BZ - 1639834 - CVE-2018-3149 OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of the trustURLCodebase restriction (JNDI, 8199177)

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.