RHSA-2020:0046 — Security Advisory

An update for java-1.8.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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

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 SR6.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during regular expression processing in Nashorn (Scripting, 8223518) (CVE-2019-2975)

• OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of nested jar: URLs in Jar URL handler (Networking, 8223892) (CVE-2019-2978)

• OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of HTTP proxy responses in HttpURLConnection (Networking, 8225298) (CVE-2019-2989)

• Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u221 (Deployment) (CVE-2019-2996)

• IBM JDK: Unrestricted access to diagnostic operations (CVE-2019-17631)

• OpenJDK: Missing restrictions on use of custom SocketImpl (Networking, 8218573) (CVE-2019-2945)

• OpenJDK: NULL pointer dereference in DrawGlyphList (2D, 8222690) (CVE-2019-2962)

• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by Pattern processing crafted regular expression (Concurrency, 8222684) (CVE-2019-2964)

• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by XPathParser processing crafted XPath expression (JAXP, 8223505) (CVE-2019-2973)

• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown by XPath processing crafted XPath expression (JAXP, 8224532) (CVE-2019-2981)

• OpenJDK: Unexpected exception thrown during Font object deserialization (Serialization, 8224915) (CVE-2019-2983)

• OpenJDK: Integer overflow in bounds check in SunGraphics2D (2D, 8225292) (CVE-2019-2988)

• OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in CMap when reading TrueType font (2D, 8225597) (CVE-2019-2992)

• OpenJDK: Insufficient filtering of HTML event attributes in Javadoc (Javadoc, 8226765) (CVE-2019-2999)

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.