Important: rh-maven36-bcel security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-42920  

Synopsis

Important: rh-maven36-bcel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for rh-maven36-bcel is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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 Byte Code Engineering Library (Apache Commons BCEL) is intended to give users a convenient way to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class).

Security Fix(es):

  • Apache-Commons-BCEL: arbitrary bytecode produced via out-of-bounds writing (CVE-2022-42920)

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2142707 - CVE-2022-42920 Apache-Commons-BCEL: arbitrary bytecode produced via out-of-bounds writing