Important: OpenJDK 8u332 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 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 (8u332) for portable Linux serves as a replacement for Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 (8u322) 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: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504) (CVE-2022-21426)
• OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151) (CVE-2022-21443)
• OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672) (CVE-2022-21434)
• OpenJDK: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008) (CVE-2022-21476)
• OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972) (CVE-2022-21496)

Bug Fix(es):

• The Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8u322 attempted to use /etc/pki/java/cacerts as their security certificate database, a change in behaviour from 8u312 where the cacerts database inside the portable build was used. This update rectifies this situation and again uses the database provided in the JDK bundle. Users may also now configure the cacerts database in the java.security file using the property security.systemCACerts. This functionality may be disabled using the switch -Djava.security.disableSystemCACerts=true

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/assembly_installing-openjdk-8-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux_openjdk#installing-jdk11-on-rhel-using-archive_openjdk

Affected Products

• OpenJDK Java (for Middleware) 1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2075788 - CVE-2022-21426 OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504)
• BZ - 2075793 - CVE-2022-21443 OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151)
• BZ - 2075836 - CVE-2022-21434 OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672)
• BZ - 2075842 - CVE-2022-21476 OpenJDK: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008)
• BZ - 2075849 - CVE-2022-21496 OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972)

CVEs

• CVE-2022-21426
• CVE-2022-21434
• CVE-2022-21443
• CVE-2022-21476
• CVE-2022-21496

References

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