RHSA-2022:5709 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-openjdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 26, 2022

Updated · October 9, 2026

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: java-1.8.0-openjdk (1.8.0.342.b07). (BZ#2084776)

Security Fix(es):

OpenJDK: integer truncation issue in Xalan-J (JAXP, 8285407) (CVE-2022-34169)
OpenJDK: class compilation issue (Hotspot, 8281859) (CVE-2022-21540)
OpenJDK: improper restriction of MethodHandle.invokeBasic() (Hotspot, 8281866) (CVE-2022-21541)

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):

rh1991003 patch breaks sun.security.pkcs11.wrapper.PKCS11.getInstance() [rhel-9, openjdk-8] (BZ#2099916)
SecretKey generate/import operations don't add the CKA_SIGN attribute in FIPS mode [rhel-9, openjdk-8] (BZ#2107956)
Revert to disabling system security properties and FIPS mode support together [rhel-9, openjdk-8] (BZ#2107958)