RHSA-2023:0005 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: bcel security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:0005 — Red Hat Security Advisory: bcel security update | PulseLinux