RHSA-2024:8116 - Security Advisory

Topic

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

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):

• giflib: Heap-Buffer Overflow during Image Saving in DumpScreen2RGB Function (CVE-2023-48161)
• JDK: Array indexing integer overflow (8328544) (CVE-2024-21210)
• JDK: HTTP client improper handling of maxHeaderSize (8328286) (CVE-2024-21208)
• JDK: Unbounded allocation leads to out-of-memory error (8331446) (CVE-2024-21217)
• JDK: Integer conversion error leads to incorrect range check (8332644) (CVE-2024-21235)

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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• 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 - 2251025 - CVE-2023-48161 giflib: Heap-Buffer Overflow during Image Saving in DumpScreen2RGB Function
• BZ - 2318524 - CVE-2024-21210 JDK: Array indexing integer overflow (8328544)
• BZ - 2318526 - CVE-2024-21208 JDK: HTTP client improper handling of maxHeaderSize (8328286)
• BZ - 2318530 - CVE-2024-21217 JDK: Unbounded allocation leads to out-of-memory error (8331446)
• BZ - 2318534 - CVE-2024-21235 JDK: Integer conversion error leads to incorrect range check (8332644)
• RHEL-62293 - Add explicit BuildRequires on make [rhel-7.9.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2023-48161
• CVE-2024-21208
• CVE-2024-21210
• CVE-2024-21217
• CVE-2024-21235

References

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