RHSA-2023:0208 — Security Advisory

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

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · January 27, 2023

Updated · October 9, 2026

Topic

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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: improper restrictions in CORBA deserialization (Serialization, 8285021) (CVE-2023-21830)
OpenJDK: soundbank URL remote loading (Sound, 8293742) (CVE-2023-21843)

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):

Leak File Descriptors Because of ResolverLocalFilesystem#engineResolveURI() (BZ#2139705)
Prepare for the next quarterly OpenJDK upstream release (2023-01, 8u362) [rhel-8] (BZ#2159910)
solr broken due to access denied ("java.io.FilePermission" "/etc/pki/java/cacerts" "read") [rhel-8, openjdk-8] (BZ#2163595)

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-21830 ↗CVE-2023-21843 ↗