Synopsis

Important: java-1.8.0-ibm security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.8.

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-FP35.

Security Fix(es):

• Oracle JDK: Unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u221 and 8u211 (2D) (CVE-2019-2697)
• OpenJDK: Font layout engine out of bounds access setCurrGlyphID() (2D, 8219022) (CVE-2019-2698)
• OpenJDK: Slow conversion of BigDecimal to long (Libraries, 8211936) (CVE-2019-2602)
• OpenJDK: Incorrect skeleton selection in RMI registry server-side dispatch handling (RMI, 8218453) (CVE-2019-2684)
• IBM JDK: Read beyond the end of bytecode array causing JVM crash (CVE-2019-10245)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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 5.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1700440 - CVE-2019-2602 OpenJDK: Slow conversion of BigDecimal to long (Libraries, 8211936)
• BZ - 1700447 - CVE-2019-2698 OpenJDK: Font layout engine out of bounds access setCurrGlyphID() (2D, 8219022)
• BZ - 1700564 - CVE-2019-2684 OpenJDK: Incorrect skeleton selection in RMI registry server-side dispatch handling (RMI, 8218453)
• BZ - 1704480 - CVE-2019-2697 Oracle JDK: Unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u221 and 8u211 (2D)
• BZ - 1704799 - CVE-2019-10245 IBM JDK: Read beyond the end of bytecode array causing JVM crash

CVEs

• CVE-2019-2602
• CVE-2019-2684
• CVE-2019-2697
• CVE-2019-2698
• CVE-2019-10245

References