Issued:
2018-08-27
Updated:
2018-08-27

RHSA-2018:2568 - Important: java-1.8.0-ibm security update

Synopsis

Important: java-1.8.0-ibm security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary.

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

IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.

This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR5-FP20.

Security Fix(es):

  • IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API (CVE-2018-12539)

  • openssl: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)

  • openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)

  • IBM JDK: DoS in the java.math component (CVE-2018-1517)

  • IBM JDK: path traversal flaw in the Diagnostic Tooling Framework (CVE-2018-1656)

  • Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (Libraries) (CVE-2018-2940)

  • OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (Concurrency, 8199547) (CVE-2018-2952)

  • Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (JSSE) (CVE-2018-2973)

  • OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting CVE-2016-0705. Upstream acknowledges Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-0705.

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 Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1.8.0.5.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64.rpm

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