RHSA-2023:5728 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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 java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: segmentation fault in ciMethodBlocks (CVE-2022-40433)
• OpenJDK: IOR deserialization issue in CORBA (8303384) (CVE-2023-22067)
• OpenJDK: certificate path validation issue during client authentication (8309966) (CVE-2023-22081)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• A maximum signature file size property, jdk.jar.maxSignatureFileSize, was introduced in the 11.0.20 release of OpenJDK by JDK-8300596, with a default of 8 MB. This default proved to be too small for some JAR files. This release, 11.0.20.1, increases it to 16 MB. (RHEL-13632)
• The /usr/bin/jfr alternative is now owned by the java-1.8.0-openjdk package (RHEL-13638)

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 OpenJDK Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2237709 - CVE-2022-40433 OpenJDK: segmentation fault in ciMethodBlocks
• BZ - 2243627 - CVE-2023-22081 OpenJDK: certificate path validation issue during client authentication (8309966)
• BZ - 2243637 - CVE-2023-22067 OpenJDK: IOR deserialization issue in CORBA (8303384)

CVEs

• CVE-2022-40433
• CVE-2023-22067
• CVE-2023-22081

References

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