Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0230 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2024-01-17
Updated:
2024-01-17

RHSA-2024:0230 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: OpenJDK 8u402 security update

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 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 (8u402) for Windows serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (8u392) 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: array out-of-bounds access due to missing range check in C1 compiler (8314468) (CVE-2024-20918)
  • OpenJDK: RSA padding issue and timing side-channel attack against TLS (8317547) (CVE-2024-20952)
  • OpenJDK: JVM class file verifier flaw allows unverified bytecode execution (8314295) (CVE-2024-20919)
  • OpenJDK: range check loop optimization issue (8314307) (CVE-2024-20921)
  • OpenJDK: arbitrary Java code execution in Nashorn (8314284) (CVE-2024-20926)
  • OpenJDK: logging of digital signature private keys (8316976) (CVE-2024-20945)

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 - 2257728 - CVE-2024-20918 OpenJDK: array out-of-bounds access due to missing range check in C1 compiler (8314468)
  • BZ - 2257837 - CVE-2024-20952 OpenJDK: RSA padding issue and timing side-channel attack against TLS (8317547)
  • BZ - 2257850 - CVE-2024-20926 OpenJDK: arbitrary Java code execution in Nashorn (8314284)
  • BZ - 2257853 - CVE-2024-20919 OpenJDK: JVM class file verifier flaw allows unverified bytecode execution (8314295)
  • BZ - 2257859 - CVE-2024-20921 OpenJDK: range check loop optimization issue (8314307)
  • BZ - 2257874 - CVE-2024-20945 OpenJDK: logging of digital signature private keys (8316976)

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