RHSA-2022:1445 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: java-17-openjdk security and bug fix update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 20, 2022

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

An update for java-17-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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-17-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 17 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 17 Java Software Development Kit.

Security Fix(es):

OpenJDK: Improper ECDSA signature verification (Libraries, 8277233) (CVE-2022-21449)
OpenJDK: Defective secure validation in Apache Santuario (Libraries, 8278008) (CVE-2022-21476)
OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation when compiling crafted XPath expressions (JAXP, 8270504) (CVE-2022-21426)
OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672) (CVE-2022-21434)
OpenJDK: Missing check for negative ObjectIdentifier (Libraries, 8275151) (CVE-2022-21443)
OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972) (CVE-2022-21496)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

Enable the import of plain keys into the NSS Software Token while in FIPS mode [rhel-8, openjdk-17] (BZ#2018189)
Enable AlgorithmParameters and AlgorithmParameterGenerator services in FIPS mode [rhel-8, openjdk-17] (BZ#2055396)