Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:1884 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2023-04-19
Updated:
2023-04-19

RHSA-2023:1884 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: OpenJDK 17.0.7 Security Update for Portable Linux Builds

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update is now available for OpenJDK.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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 (17.0.7) for portable Linux serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 (17.0.6) 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: improper connection handling during TLS handshake (8294474) (CVE-2023-21930)
  • OpenJDK: Swing HTML parsing issue (8296832) (CVE-2023-21939)
  • OpenJDK: incorrect enqueue of references in garbage collector (8298191) (CVE-2023-21954)
  • OpenJDK: certificate validation issue in TLS session negotiation (8298310) (CVE-2023-21967)
  • OpenJDK: missing string checks for NULL characters (8296622) (CVE-2023-21937)
  • OpenJDK: incorrect handling of NULL characters in ProcessBuilder (8295304) (CVE-2023-21938)
  • OpenJDK: missing check for slash characters in URI-to-path conversion (8298667) (CVE-2023-21968)

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

Affected Products

  • OpenJDK Java (for Middleware) 1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2187435 - CVE-2023-21930 OpenJDK: improper connection handling during TLS handshake (8294474)
  • BZ - 2187441 - CVE-2023-21954 OpenJDK: incorrect enqueue of references in garbage collector (8298191)
  • BZ - 2187704 - CVE-2023-21967 OpenJDK: certificate validation issue in TLS session negotiation (8298310)
  • BZ - 2187724 - CVE-2023-21939 OpenJDK: Swing HTML parsing issue (8296832)
  • BZ - 2187758 - CVE-2023-21938 OpenJDK: incorrect handling of NULL characters in ProcessBuilder (8295304)
  • BZ - 2187790 - CVE-2023-21937 OpenJDK: missing string checks for NULL characters (8296622)
  • BZ - 2187802 - CVE-2023-21968 OpenJDK: missing check for slash characters in URI-to-path conversion (8298667)

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