Topic

An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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

The java-1.7.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 7 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 7 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve (EC) cryptography (Security, 8208698) (CVE-2019-2745)
• OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed exceptions in deserialization (Utilities, 8212328) (CVE-2019-2762)
• OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in Collections (Utilities, 8213432) (CVE-2019-2769)
• OpenJDK: Missing URL format validation (Networking, 8221518) (CVE-2019-2816)
• OpenJDK: Missing array bounds check in crypto providers (JCE, 8223511) (CVE-2019-2842)
• OpenJDK: Insufficient restriction of privileges in AccessController (Security, 8216381) (CVE-2019-2786)

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

All running instances of OpenJDK 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1730056 - CVE-2019-2769 OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in Collections (Utilities, 8213432)
• BZ - 1730099 - CVE-2019-2816 OpenJDK: Missing URL format validation (Networking, 8221518)
• BZ - 1730110 - CVE-2019-2842 OpenJDK: Missing array bounds check in crypto providers (JCE, 8223511)
• BZ - 1730255 - CVE-2019-2786 OpenJDK: Insufficient restriction of privileges in AccessController (Security, 8216381)
• BZ - 1730411 - CVE-2019-2745 OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve (EC) cryptography (Security, 8208698)
• BZ - 1730415 - CVE-2019-2762 OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed exceptions in deserialization (Utilities, 8212328)

CVEs

• CVE-2019-2745
• CVE-2019-2762
• CVE-2019-2769
• CVE-2019-2786
• CVE-2019-2816
• CVE-2019-2842

References

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