RHSA-2024:0879 - 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 SR8-FP15.

Security Fix(es):

• IBM JDK: Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM denial of service (CVE-2023-5676)
• 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.

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 - 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)
• BZ - 2250255 - CVE-2023-5676 IBM JDK: Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM denial of service

CVEs

• CVE-2023-5676
• CVE-2023-22067
• CVE-2023-22081

References

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