RHSA-2023:1905 — Security Advisory

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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.

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 connection handling during TLS handshake (8294474) (CVE-2023-21930)

• OpenJDK: Swing HTML parsing issue (8296832) (CVE-2023-21939)

• OpenJDK: incorrect enqueue of references in garbage collector (8298191) (CVE-2023-21954)

• OpenJDK: certificate validation issue in TLS session negotiation (8298310) (CVE-2023-21967)

• OpenJDK: missing string checks for NULL characters (8296622) (CVE-2023-21937)

• OpenJDK: incorrect handling of NULL characters in ProcessBuilder (8295304) (CVE-2023-21938)

• OpenJDK: missing check for slash characters in URI-to-path conversion (8298667) (CVE-2023-21968)

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.