RHSA-2018:2942 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 18, 2018

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

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

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

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: Improper field access checks (Hotspot, 8199226) (CVE-2018-3169)
OpenJDK: Unrestricted access to scripting engine (Scripting, 8202936) (CVE-2018-3183)
OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of the trustURLCodebase restriction (JNDI, 8199177) (CVE-2018-3149)
OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of unsigned attributes in singed Jar manifests (Security, 8194534) (CVE-2018-3136)
OpenJDK: Leak of sensitive header data via HTTP redirect (Networking, 8196902) (CVE-2018-3139)
OpenJDK: Missing endpoint identification algorithm check during TLS session resumption (JSSE, 8202613) (CVE-2018-3180)
OpenJDK: Infinite loop in RIFF format reader (Sound, 8205361) (CVE-2018-3214)

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.