RHSA-2020:5585HighCVSS 8.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-ibm security update

Published
December 16, 2020
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (13)

CVE-2019-17639 →CVE-2020-2590 →CVE-2020-14556 →CVE-2020-14577 →CVE-2020-14579 →CVE-2020-14583 →CVE-2020-14621 →CVE-2020-14779 →CVE-2020-2601 →CVE-2020-14578 →CVE-2020-14593 →CVE-2020-14796 →CVE-2020-14797 →

📋 Description

CVE-2019-17639 — JDK: Information disclosure via calls to System.arraycopy() with invalid length CVE-2020-2590 — OpenJDK: Improper checks of SASL message properties in GssKrb5Base (Security, 8226352) CVE-2020-2601 — OpenJDK: Use of unsafe RSA-MD5 checksum in Kerberos TGS (Security, 8229951) CVE-2020-14556 — OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of access control context in ForkJoinPool (Libraries, 8237117) CVE-2020-14577 — OpenJDK: HostnameChecker does not ensure X.509 certificate names are in normalized form (JSSE, 8237592) CVE-2020-14578 — OpenJDK: Unexpected exception raised by DerInputStream (Libraries, 8237731) CVE-2020-14579 — OpenJDK: Unexpected exception raised by DerValue.equals() (Libraries, 8237736) CVE-2020-14583 — OpenJDK: Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access (Libraries, 8238920) CVE-2020-14593 — OpenJDK: Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations (2D, 8240119) CVE-2020-14621 — OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature (JAXP, 8242136) CVE-2020-14779 — OpenJDK: High memory usage during deserialization of Proxy class with many interfaces (Serialization, 8236862) CVE-2020-14796 — OpenJDK: Missing permission check in path to URI conversion (Libraries, 8242680) CVE-2020-14797 — OpenJDK: Incomplete check for invalid characters in URI to path conversion (Libraries, 8242685)

🎯 Affected products42

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.6.20-1jpp.1.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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