Synopsis
Moderate: java-1.8.0-openjdk security and bug fix update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
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: Credentials sent over unencrypted LDAP connection (JNDI, 8237990) (CVE-2020-14781)
- OpenJDK: Certificate blacklist bypass via alternate certificate encodings (Libraries, 8237995) (CVE-2020-14782)
- OpenJDK: Integer overflow leading to out-of-bounds access (Hotspot, 8241114) (CVE-2020-14792)
- OpenJDK: Incomplete check for invalid characters in URI to path conversion (Libraries, 8242685) (CVE-2020-14797)
- OpenJDK: Race condition in NIO Buffer boundary checks (Libraries, 8244136) (CVE-2020-14803)
- OpenJDK: High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces (Serialization, 8236862) (CVE-2020-14779)
- OpenJDK: Missing permission check in path to URI conversion (Libraries, 8242680) (CVE-2020-14796)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
- JDK-8215727: Restore JFR thread sampler loop to old / previous behavior (BZ#1889532)
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
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
Fixes
- BZ - 1889271 - CVE-2020-14779 OpenJDK: High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces (Serialization, 8236862)
- BZ - 1889274 - CVE-2020-14781 OpenJDK: Credentials sent over unencrypted LDAP connection (JNDI, 8237990)
- BZ - 1889280 - CVE-2020-14792 OpenJDK: Integer overflow leading to out-of-bounds access (Hotspot, 8241114)
- BZ - 1889290 - CVE-2020-14782 OpenJDK: Certificate blacklist bypass via alternate certificate encodings (Libraries, 8237995)
- BZ - 1889532 - JDK-8215727: Restore JFR thread sampler loop to old / previous behavior
- BZ - 1889697 - CVE-2020-14796 OpenJDK: Missing permission check in path to URI conversion (Libraries, 8242680)
- BZ - 1889717 - CVE-2020-14797 OpenJDK: Incomplete check for invalid characters in URI to path conversion (Libraries, 8242685)
- BZ - 1889895 - CVE-2020-14803 OpenJDK: Race condition in NIO Buffer boundary checks (Libraries, 8244136)
CVEs
References
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