Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR6.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518) (CVE-2019-2975)
• 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)
• Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u221 (Deployment) (CVE-2019-2996)
• IBM JDK: Unrestricted access to diagnostic operations (CVE-2019-17631)
• 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: 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 IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1760963 - CVE-2019-2964 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by Pattern processing crafted regular expression (Concurrency, 8222684)
• BZ - 1760969 - CVE-2019-2975 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518)
• 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 - 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)
• BZ - 1778942 - CVE-2019-2996 Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u221 (Deployment)
• BZ - 1779880 - CVE-2019-17631 IBM JDK: Unrestricted access to diagnostic operations

CVEs

• CVE-2019-2945
• CVE-2019-2962
• CVE-2019-2964
• CVE-2019-2973
• CVE-2019-2975
• CVE-2019-2978
• CVE-2019-2981
• CVE-2019-2983
• CVE-2019-2988
• CVE-2019-2989
• CVE-2019-2992
• CVE-2019-2996
• CVE-2019-2999
• CVE-2019-17631

References

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