RHSA-2018:2568: Important: java-1.8.0-ibm security update

First published: Mon Aug 27 2018(Updated: )

IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit.<br>This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR5-FP20.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> IBM JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API (CVE-2018-12539)</li> <li> openssl: BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)</li> <li> openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)</li> <li> IBM JDK: DoS in the java.math component (CVE-2018-1517)</li> <li> IBM JDK: path traversal flaw in the Diagnostic Tooling Framework (CVE-2018-1656)</li> <li> Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (Libraries) (CVE-2018-2940)</li> <li> OpenJDK: insufficient index validation in PatternSyntaxException getMessage() (Concurrency, 8199547) (CVE-2018-2952)</li> <li> Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u201, 7u191, 8u181, and 10.0.2 (JSSE) (CVE-2018-2973)</li> <li> OpenSSL: Double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.<br>Red Hat would like to thank the OpenSSL project for reporting CVE-2016-0705. Upstream acknowledges Adam Langley (Google/BoringSSL) as the original reporter of CVE-2016-0705.

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