Moderate: OpenJDK 8u322 security update for Portable Linux Builds

Topic

The Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (java-1.8.0-openjdk) is now available for portable 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

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 (8u322) for portable Linux serves as a replacement for Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (8u312) 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: Unexpected exception thrown in regex Pattern (Libraries, 8268813) (CVE-2022-21283)
• OpenJDK: Incomplete checks of StringBuffer and StringBuilder during deserialization (Libraries, 8270392) (CVE-2022-21293)
• OpenJDK: Incorrect IdentityHashMap size checks during deserialization (Libraries, 8270416) (CVE-2022-21294)
• OpenJDK: Insufficient URI checks in the XSLT TransformerImpl (JAXP, 8270492) (CVE-2022-21282)
• OpenJDK: Incorrect access checks in XMLEntityManager (JAXP, 8270498) (CVE-2022-21296)
• OpenJDK: Infinite loop related to incorrect handling of newlines in XMLEntityScanner (JAXP, 8270646) (CVE-2022-21299)
• OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273756) (CVE-2022-21360)
• OpenJDK: Integer overflow in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273838) (CVE-2022-21365)
• OpenJDK: Incomplete deserialization class filtering in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8264934) (CVE-2022-21248)
• OpenJDK: Array indexing issues in LIRGenerator (Hotspot, 8272014) (CVE-2022-21305)
• OpenJDK: Excessive resource use when reading JAR manifest attributes (Libraries, 8272026) (CVE-2022-21340)
• OpenJDK: Insufficient checks when deserializing exceptions in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8272236) (CVE-2022-21341)

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

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openjdk/8/html/installing_and_using_openjdk_8_for_rhel/installing-openjdk8-on-rhel#installing-jdk8-on-rhel-using-archive

Affected Products

• OpenJDK Java (for Middleware) 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2041400 - CVE-2022-21283 OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown in regex Pattern (Libraries, 8268813)
• BZ - 2041417 - CVE-2022-21293 OpenJDK: Incomplete checks of StringBuffer and StringBuilder during deserialization (Libraries, 8270392)
• BZ - 2041427 - CVE-2022-21294 OpenJDK: Incorrect IdentityHashMap size checks during deserialization (Libraries, 8270416)
• BZ - 2041435 - CVE-2022-21282 OpenJDK: Insufficient URI checks in the XSLT TransformerImpl (JAXP, 8270492)
• BZ - 2041439 - CVE-2022-21296 OpenJDK: Incorrect access checks in XMLEntityManager (JAXP, 8270498)
• BZ - 2041472 - CVE-2022-21299 OpenJDK: Infinite loop related to incorrect handling of newlines in XMLEntityScanner (JAXP, 8270646)
• BZ - 2041491 - CVE-2022-21360 OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273756)
• BZ - 2041785 - CVE-2022-21365 OpenJDK: Integer overflow in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8273838)
• BZ - 2041801 - CVE-2022-21248 OpenJDK: Incomplete deserialization class filtering in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8264934)
• BZ - 2041878 - CVE-2022-21305 OpenJDK: Array indexing issues in LIRGenerator (Hotspot, 8272014)
• BZ - 2041884 - CVE-2022-21340 OpenJDK: Excessive resource use when reading JAR manifest attributes (Libraries, 8272026)
• BZ - 2041897 - CVE-2022-21341 OpenJDK: Insufficient checks when deserializing exceptions in ObjectInputStream (Serialization, 8272236)

CVEs

• CVE-2022-21248
• CVE-2022-21282
• CVE-2022-21283
• CVE-2022-21293
• CVE-2022-21294
• CVE-2022-21296
• CVE-2022-21299
• CVE-2022-21305
• CVE-2022-21340
• CVE-2022-21341
• CVE-2022-21360
• CVE-2022-21365

References

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