Moderate: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.

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: segmentation fault in ciMethodBlocks (CVE-2022-40433)
• OpenJDK: IOR deserialization issue in CORBA (8303384) (CVE-2023-22067)
• OpenJDK: certificate path validation issue during client authentication (8309966) (CVE-2023-22081)

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):

• A maximum signature file size property, jdk.jar.maxSignatureFileSize, was introduced in the 8u382 release of OpenJDK by JDK-8300596, with a default of 8 MB. This default proved to be too small for some JAR files. This release, 8u392, increases it to 16 MB. (RHEL-13592)
• The /usr/bin/jfr alternative is now owned by the java-1.8.0-openjdk package (RHEL-13582)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.0 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.0 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.0 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2237709 - CVE-2022-40433 OpenJDK: segmentation fault in ciMethodBlocks
• BZ - 2243627 - CVE-2023-22081 OpenJDK: certificate path validation issue during client authentication (8309966)
• BZ - 2243637 - CVE-2023-22067 OpenJDK: IOR deserialization issue in CORBA (8303384)

CVEs

• CVE-2022-40433
• CVE-2023-22067
• CVE-2023-22081

References

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