Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:4562 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2024-07-18
Updated:
2024-07-18

RHSA-2024:4562 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: OpenJDK 8u422 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 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 (8u422) for portable Linux serves as a replacement for Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (8u412) and includes security and bug fixes as well as enhancements. For further information, refer to the release notes linked to in the References section.

Security Fix(es):

  • OpenJDK: RangeCheckElimination array index overflow (8323231) (CVE-2024-21147)
  • OpenJDK: potential UTF8 size overflow (8314794) (CVE-2024-21131)
  • OpenJDK: Excessive symbol length can lead to infinite loop (8319859) (CVE-2024-21138)
  • OpenJDK: Range Check Elimination (RCE) pre-loop limit overflow (8320548) (CVE-2024-21140)
  • OpenJDK: Pack200 increase loading time due to improper header validation (8322106) (CVE-2024-21144)
  • OpenJDK: Out-of-bounds access in 2D image handling (8324559) (CVE-2024-21145)

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 - 2297961 - CVE-2024-21131 OpenJDK: potential UTF8 size overflow (8314794)
  • BZ - 2297962 - CVE-2024-21138 OpenJDK: Excessive symbol length can lead to infinite loop (8319859)
  • BZ - 2297963 - CVE-2024-21140 OpenJDK: Range Check Elimination (RCE) pre-loop limit overflow (8320548)
  • BZ - 2297964 - CVE-2024-21144 OpenJDK: Pack200 increase loading time due to improper header validation (8322106)
  • BZ - 2297976 - CVE-2024-21145 OpenJDK: Out-of-bounds access in 2D image handling (8324559)
  • BZ - 2297977 - CVE-2024-21147 OpenJDK: RangeCheckElimination array index overflow (8323231)

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