RHSA-2023:0005 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: bcel security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · January 2, 2023
Updated · October 2, 2026
Topic
An update for bcel 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 Byte Code Engineering Library (Apache Commons BCEL) is intended to give users a convenient way to analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with .class).
Security Fix(es):
- Apache-Commons-BCEL: arbitrary bytecode produced via out-of-bounds writing (CVE-2022-42920)
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.