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: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892) (CVE-2019-2978)
• OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConnection (Networking, 8225298) (CVE-2019-2989)
• OpenJDK: Missing restrictions on use of custom SocketImpl (Networking, 8218573) (CVE-2019-2945)
• OpenJDK: NULL pointer dereference in DrawGlyphList (2D, 8222690) (CVE-2019-2962)
• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by Pattern processing crafted regular expression (Concurrency, 8222684) (CVE-2019-2964)
• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by XPathParser processing crafted XPath expression (JAXP, 8223505) (CVE-2019-2973)
• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by XPath processing crafted XPath expression (JAXP, 8224532) (CVE-2019-2981)
• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during Font object deserialization (Serialization, 8224915) (CVE-2019-2983)
• OpenJDK: Missing glyph bitmap image dimension check in FreetypeFontScaler (2D, 8225286) (CVE-2019-2987)
• OpenJDK: Integer overflow in bounds check in SunGraphics2D (2D, 8225292) (CVE-2019-2988)
• OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in CMap when reading TrueType font (2D, 8225597) (CVE-2019-2992)
• OpenJDK: Insufficient filtering of HTML event attributes in Javadoc (Javadoc, 8226765) (CVE-2019-2999)

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 - 1760963 - CVE-2019-2964 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by Pattern processing crafted regular expression (Concurrency, 8222684)
• BZ - 1760978 - CVE-2019-2973 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by XPathParser processing crafted XPath expression (JAXP, 8223505)
• BZ - 1760980 - CVE-2019-2981 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by XPath processing crafted XPath expression (JAXP, 8224532)
• BZ - 1760992 - CVE-2019-2999 OpenJDK: Insufficient filtering of HTML event attributes in Javadoc (Javadoc, 8226765)
• BZ - 1760999 - CVE-2019-2988 OpenJDK: Integer overflow in bounds check in SunGraphics2D (2D, 8225292)
• BZ - 1761006 - CVE-2019-2978 OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892)
• BZ - 1761146 - CVE-2019-2992 OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in CMap when reading TrueType font (2D, 8225597)
• BZ - 1761149 - CVE-2019-2987 OpenJDK: Missing glyph bitmap image dimension check in FreetypeFontScaler (2D, 8225286)
• BZ - 1761262 - CVE-2019-2983 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during Font object deserialization (Serialization, 8224915)
• BZ - 1761266 - CVE-2019-2962 OpenJDK: NULL pointer dereference in DrawGlyphList (2D, 8222690)
• BZ - 1761596 - CVE-2019-2945 OpenJDK: Missing restrictions on use of custom SocketImpl (Networking, 8218573)
• BZ - 1761601 - CVE-2019-2989 OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConnection (Networking, 8225298)

CVEs

• CVE-2019-2945
• CVE-2019-2962
• CVE-2019-2964
• CVE-2019-2973
• CVE-2019-2978
• CVE-2019-2981
• CVE-2019-2983
• CVE-2019-2987
• CVE-2019-2988
• CVE-2019-2989
• CVE-2019-2992
• CVE-2019-2999

References

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