Issued:

2022-12-13

Updated:

2022-12-13

RHSA-2022:8959 - Important: rh-maven36-bcel security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-maven36-bcel security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for rh-maven36-bcel is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

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

The Byte Code Engineering Library (Apache Commons BCEL) is intended to give users a convenient way to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class).

Security Fix(es):

• Apache-Commons-BCEL: arbitrary bytecode produced via out-of-bounds writing (CVE-2022-42920)

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.

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• rh-maven36-bcel-6.3.1-2.3.el7.src.rpm
• rh-maven36-bcel-javadoc-6.3.1-2.3.el7.noarch.rpm
• rh-maven36-bcel-6.3.1-2.3.el7.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2142707

CVEs

• CVE-2022-42920

References

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

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.