Issued:
2017-08-23
Updated:
2017-08-23

RHSA-2017:2530 - Critical: java-1.6.0-ibm security update

Synopsis

Critical: java-1.6.0-ibm security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

Topic

An update for java-1.6.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. 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

IBM Java SE version 6 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 6 to version 6 SR16-FP50.

Security Fix(es):

  • This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java Security Vulnerabilities page listed in the References section. (CVE-2017-10053, CVE-2017-10067, CVE-2017-10087, CVE-2017-10089, CVE-2017-10096, CVE-2017-10101, CVE-2017-10102, CVE-2017-10105, CVE-2017-10107, CVE-2017-10108, CVE-2017-10109, CVE-2017-10110, CVE-2017-10115, CVE-2017-10116, CVE-2017-10243)

IBM Java SDK and JRE 6 will not receive software updates after September 2017. This date is referred to as the End of Service (EOS) date. Customers are advised to migrate to current versions of IBM Java at this time. IBM Java SDK and JRE versions 7 and 8 are available via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary content sets and will continue to receive updates based on IBM's lifecycle policy, linked to in the References section.

Customers can also consider OpenJDK, an open source implementation of the Java SE specification. OpenJDK is available by default on supported hardware architectures.

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 IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-devel-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-javacomm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-javacomm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-devel-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-plugin-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-javacomm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-devel-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-jdbc-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-plugin-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-devel-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-demo-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.6.0-ibm-src-1.6.0.16.50-1jpp.1.el6_9.i686.rpm

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