Moderate: java-1.8.0-openjdk security and bug fix 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 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 java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: improper restrictions in CORBA deserialization (Serialization, 8285021) (CVE-2023-21830)
• OpenJDK: soundbank URL remote loading (Sound, 8293742) (CVE-2023-21843)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• Prepare for the next quarterly OpenJDK upstream release (2023-01, 8u362) (BZ#2150191)

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 - 2150191 - Prepare for the next quarterly OpenJDK upstream release (2023-01, 8u362) [rhel-7.9.z]
• BZ - 2160475 - CVE-2023-21843 OpenJDK: soundbank URL remote loading (Sound, 8293742)
• BZ - 2160490 - CVE-2023-21830 OpenJDK: improper restrictions in CORBA deserialization (Serialization, 8285021)

CVEs

• CVE-2023-21830
• CVE-2023-21843

References

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