RHSA-2022:1437 - Security Advisory

Topic

The Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 (java-17-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 17 packages provide the OpenJDK 17 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 17 Java Software Development Kit.

This release of the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 (17.0.3) for portable Linux
serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 (17.0.2) 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: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504) (CVE-2022-21426)
• OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151) (CVE-2022-21443)
• OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672) (CVE-2022-21434)
• OpenJDK: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008) (CVE-2022-21476)
• OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972) (CVE-2022-21496)
• OpenJDK: Improper ECDSA signature verification (Libraries, 8277233) (CVE-2022-21449)

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/17/html/installing_and_using_openjdk_17_for_windows/index

Affected Products

• OpenJDK Java (for Middleware) 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2075788 - CVE-2022-21426 OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504)
• BZ - 2075793 - CVE-2022-21443 OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151)
• BZ - 2075821 - CVE-2022-21449 OpenJDK: Improper ECDSA signature verification (Libraries, 8277233)
• BZ - 2075836 - CVE-2022-21434 OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672)
• BZ - 2075842 - CVE-2022-21476 OpenJDK: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008)
• BZ - 2075849 - CVE-2022-21496 OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972)

CVEs

• CVE-2022-21426
• CVE-2022-21434
• CVE-2022-21443
• CVE-2022-21449
• CVE-2022-21476
• CVE-2022-21496

References

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