Important: java-1.8.0-openjdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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 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 java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: java-1.8.0-openjdk (1.8.0.342.b07). (BZ#2083257)

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407) (CVE-2022-34169)
• OpenJDK: class compilation issue (Hotspot, 8281859) (CVE-2022-21540)
• OpenJDK: improper restriction of MethodHandle.invokeBasic() (Hotspot, 8281866) (CVE-2022-21541)

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

All running instances of OpenJDK Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2083257 - Prepare for the next quarterly OpenJDK upstream release (2022-07, 8u342) [rhel-7.9.z]
• BZ - 2108540 - CVE-2022-21540 OpenJDK: class compilation issue (Hotspot, 8281859)
• BZ - 2108543 - CVE-2022-21541 OpenJDK: improper restriction of MethodHandle.invokeBasic() (Hotspot, 8281866)
• BZ - 2108554 - CVE-2022-34169 OpenJDK: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407)

CVEs

• CVE-2022-21540
• CVE-2022-21541
• CVE-2022-34169

References

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