RHSA-2023:4103HighCVSS 8.1

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

Published
July 17, 2023
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (7)

CVE-2023-21937 →CVE-2023-21938 →CVE-2023-21939 →CVE-2023-21967 →CVE-2023-21968 →CVE-2022-40609 →CVE-2023-21930 →

📋 Description

CVE-2022-40609 — JDK: unsafe deserialization flaw in the Object Request Broker (ORB) CVE-2023-21930 — OpenJDK: improper connection handling during TLS handshake (8294474) CVE-2023-21937 — OpenJDK: missing string checks for NULL characters (8296622) CVE-2023-21938 — OpenJDK: incorrect handling of NULL characters in ProcessBuilder (8295304) CVE-2023-21939 — OpenJDK: Swing HTML parsing issue (8296832) CVE-2023-21967 — OpenJDK: certificate validation issue in TLS session negotiation (8298310) CVE-2023-21968 — OpenJDK: missing check for slash characters in URI-to-path conversion (8298667)

🎯 Affected products23

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-demo-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-devel-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-headless-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-headless-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-headless-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-jdbc-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-plugin-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-src-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)
  • java-1.8.0-ibm-webstart-1:1.8.0.8.5-1.el8_8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 8)

✅ 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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