RHEL 8 : java-17-openjdk (RHSA-2023:1891)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174689

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-17-openjdk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1891 advisory.

The java-17-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 17 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 17 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.

Bug Fix(es):

* Previously, the XML signature provider was unable to operate in FIPS mode. Following recent enhancements to FIPS mode support, the XML signature provider can now be supported. It is now enabled in FIPS mode.
(RHBZ#2186828)

* The PKCS#11 provider used by FIPS mode can be supported by different PKCS#11 tokens. It was found that some PKCS#11 tokens may not be initialised fully before use, leading to an exception being thrown by the provider. With this release, this exception is now expected and handled by the FIPS support code.
(RHBZ#2186832)

* In FIPS mode, the list of cryptographic services and algorithms available is limited to those that are FIPS compliant. It was found that this filtering was too strict and was also excluding service attributes.
These attributes are now made available in FIPS mode, as they are in non-FIPS mode. (RHBZ#2186836)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL java-17-openjdk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1891.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?97a5ce2a

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186828

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186832

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186836

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187435

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187441

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187704

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187724

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187758

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187790

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187802

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1891

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174689

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1891.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2023

Updated: 11/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-21930

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-src-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-src-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-headless-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-17-openjdk-jmods

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-21930, CVE-2023-21937, CVE-2023-21938, CVE-2023-21939, CVE-2023-21954, CVE-2023-21967, CVE-2023-21968

CWE: 158, 20, 200, 358, 924

RHSA: 2023:1891