Moderate: rh-eclipse security, bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-eclipse security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

Updated rh-eclipse packages are now available as a part of Red Hat Developer Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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

Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE).

The rh-eclipse packages have been upgraded to version 4.17, which is based on the Eclipse Foundation's 2020-09 release train.

For instructions on how to use rh-eclipse, see Using Eclipse linked from the References section.

Security Fix(es):

• jetty: local temporary directory hijacking vulnerability (CVE-2020-27216)
  

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Changes chapter in the Using Eclipse guide linked from 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 Developer Tools (for RHEL Workstation) 1 x86_64
• Red Hat Developer Tools (for RHEL Server) 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1891132 - CVE-2020-27216 jetty: local temporary directory hijacking vulnerability

CVEs

• CVE-2020-27216

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_tools/1/html-single/using_eclipse_4.17/index#changes_in_eclipse