RHSA-2023:5731 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · October 19, 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):
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OpenJDK: segmentation fault in ciMethodBlocks (CVE-2022-40433)
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OpenJDK: IOR deserialization issue in CORBA (8303384) (CVE-2023-22067)
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OpenJDK: certificate path validation issue during client authentication (8309966) (CVE-2023-22081)
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):
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A maximum signature file size property, jdk.jar.maxSignatureFileSize, was introduced in the 8u382 release of OpenJDK by JDK-8300596, with a default of 8 MB. This default proved to be too small for some JAR files. This release, 8u392, increases it to 16 MB. (RHEL-13635)
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The /usr/bin/jfr alternative is now owned by the java-1.8.0-openjdk package (RHEL-13641)