Issued:

2013-11-20

Updated:

2013-11-20

RHBA-2013:1611 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The java-1.7.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 7 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 7 Software Development Kit.

The java-1.7.0-openjdk package has been upgraded to upstream version 2.4.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Attempting to compile a SystemTap script using the jstack tapset could have failed with an error similar to the following:

error: the frame size of 272 bytes is larger than 256 bytes

This update corrects the jstack tapset and resolves this problem. (BZ#825824)

• Because of incorrect KDC list concatenation logic, the sun.security.krb5.Config.getKDCList method returned incorrect KDC lists when the dns_lookup_kdc property in the krb5.conf file was set to true. The concatenation logic has been fixed with this release and correct KDC lists are now returned. (BZ#871771)

• The java-1.7.0-openjdk RPM package contained incorrect specification of the libnss3 dependency and installed its x86_64 version on i686 systems. Because of the missing dependency, launching the java command with the -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote parameter on 32bit JVMs terminated unexpectedly. The dependency specification has been corrected with this update. As a result, the correct version of the libnss3 package is installed and the java command no longer terminates when launched with the -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote parameter. (BZ#997633)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• The NSS security provider is now the default security provider in OpenJDK 7. This brings a significant performance improvement over the previous releases. (BZ#831734, BZ#905128)

• The java-1.7.0-openjdk RPM package now provides the java dependency. As a result, it is no longer necessary to have the java-1.6.0-openjdk package installed alongside java-1.7.0-openjdk for the java dependency to be available. (BZ#916288)

Users of java-1.7.0-openjdk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements. All running instances of OpenJDK Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• java-1.7.0-openjdk-src-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.i686.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.i686.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.src.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-src-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.i686.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-demo-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.noarch.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.i686.rpm
• java-1.7.0-openjdk-demo-1.7.0.45-2.4.3.3.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 905128
• This content is not included.BZ - 997633

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.