RHSA-2021:1445 - Security Advisory

Topic

The Red Hat Build of OpenJDK 8 (java-1.8.0-openjdk) is now available for Windows.

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 OpenJDK 8 packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

This release of the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (1.8.0.292) for Windows serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (1.8.0.282) and includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of partially quoted arguments in ProcessBuilder on Windows (Libraries, 8250568) (CVE-2021-2161)
• OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (Libraries, 8249906) (CVE-2021-2163)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openjdk/8/html/installing_and_using_openjdk_8_for_windows/index

Affected Products

• OpenJDK Java (for Middleware) 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1951217 - CVE-2021-2163 OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of JAR signing disabled algorithms (Libraries, 8249906)
• BZ - 1951231 - CVE-2021-2161 OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of partially quoted arguments in ProcessBuilder on Windows (Libraries, 8250568)

CVEs

• CVE-2021-2161
• CVE-2021-2163

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/jbossnetwork/restricted/listSoftware.html?downloadType=distributions&product=core.service.openjdk&version=1.8.0.292
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openjdk/8/html/installing_and_using_openjdk_8_for_windows/index
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openjdk/8/html/troubleshooting_openjdk_8_for_windows/index
• https://openjdk.java.net/groups/vulnerability/advisories/2021-04-20