RHSA-2024:1817 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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: long Exception message leading to crash (8319851) (CVE-2024-21011)
• OpenJDK: integer overflow in C1 compiler address generation (8322122) (CVE-2024-21068)
• OpenJDK: Pack200 excessive memory allocation (8322114) (CVE-2024-21085)
• OpenJDK: C2 compilation fails with "Exceeded _node_regs array" (8317507) (CVE-2024-21094)

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2274977 - CVE-2024-21011 OpenJDK: long Exception message leading to crash (8319851)
• BZ - 2275001 - CVE-2024-21085 OpenJDK: Pack200 excessive memory allocation (8322114)
• BZ - 2275003 - CVE-2024-21068 OpenJDK: integer overflow in C1 compiler address generation (8322122)
• BZ - 2275005 - CVE-2024-21094 OpenJDK: C2 compilation fails with "Exceeded _node_regs array" (8317507)

CVEs

• CVE-2024-21011
• CVE-2024-21068
• CVE-2024-21085
• CVE-2024-21094

References

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