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RHSA-2020:0196 — Security Advisory

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

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · January 22, 2020

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 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 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: Use of unsafe RSA-MD5 checkum in Kerberos TGS (Security, 8229951) (CVE-2020-2601)

  • OpenJDK: Serialization filter changes via jdk.serialFilter property modification (Serialization, 8231422) (CVE-2020-2604)

  • OpenJDK: Improper checks of SASL message properties in GssKrb5Base (Security, 8226352) (CVE-2020-2590)

  • OpenJDK: Incorrect isBuiltinStreamHandler causing URL normalization issues (Networking, 8228548) (CVE-2020-2593)

  • OpenJDK: Excessive memory usage in OID processing in X.509 certificate parsing (Libraries, 8234037) (CVE-2020-2654)

  • OpenJDK: Incorrect exception processing during deserialization in BeanContextSupport (Serialization, 8224909) (CVE-2020-2583)

  • OpenJDK: Incomplete enforcement of maxDatagramSockets limit in DatagramChannelImpl (Networking, 8231795) (CVE-2020-2659)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:0196 — Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update | PulseLinux