RHSA-2022:0968 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary.

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 SR7-FP5.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: Weak ciphers preferred over stronger ones for TLS (JSSE, 8264210) (CVE-2021-35550)
• OpenJDK: Incomplete deserialization class filtering in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8264934) (CVE-2022-21248)
• OpenJDK: Incomplete checks of StringBuffer and StringBuilder during deserialization (Libraries, 8270392) (CVE-2022-21293)
• OpenJDK: Incorrect IdentityHashMap size checks during deserialization (Libraries, 8270416) (CVE-2022-21294)
• OpenJDK: Excessive resource use when reading JAR manifest attributes (Libraries, 8272026) (CVE-2022-21340)
• OpenJDK: Insufficient checks when deserializing exceptions in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8272236) (CVE-2022-21341)
• OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273756) (CVE-2022-21360)
• OpenJDK: Integer overflow in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273838) (CVE-2022-21365)
• OpenJDK: Non-constant comparison during TLS handshakes (JSSE, 8269618) (CVE-2021-35603)

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 Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2015311 - CVE-2021-35603 OpenJDK: Non-constant comparison during TLS handshakes (JSSE, 8269618)
• BZ - 2015648 - CVE-2021-35550 OpenJDK: Weak ciphers preferred over stronger ones for TLS (JSSE, 8264210)
• BZ - 2041417 - CVE-2022-21293 OpenJDK: Incomplete checks of StringBuffer and StringBuilder during deserialization (Libraries, 8270392)
• BZ - 2041427 - CVE-2022-21294 OpenJDK: Incorrect IdentityHashMap size checks during deserialization (Libraries, 8270416)
• BZ - 2041491 - CVE-2022-21360 OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273756)
• BZ - 2041785 - CVE-2022-21365 OpenJDK: Integer overflow in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273838)
• BZ - 2041801 - CVE-2022-21248 OpenJDK: Incomplete deserialization class filtering in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8264934)
• BZ - 2041884 - CVE-2022-21340 OpenJDK: Excessive resource use when reading JAR manifest attributes (Libraries, 8272026)
• BZ - 2041897 - CVE-2022-21341 OpenJDK: Insufficient checks when deserializing exceptions in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8272236)

CVEs

• CVE-2021-35550
• CVE-2021-35603
• CVE-2022-21248
• CVE-2022-21293
• CVE-2022-21294
• CVE-2022-21340
• CVE-2022-21341
• CVE-2022-21360
• CVE-2022-21365

References

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