RHEL 9 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2023:1909)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174951

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for java-1.8.0-openjdk.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:1909 advisory.

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):

* 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):

* The RSAPSSSignature implementation works with RSA keys via the SunRSASign provider. However, it did not fully check that the RSA key could be used by the provider before attempting to do so, leading to the possibility of errors being returned with custom security providers. The implementation now validates RSA keys and will allow other providers to handle such keys where it cannot. (RHBZ#2188024)

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-1.8.0-openjdk package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:1909.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2c5176c3

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

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188024

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1909

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174951

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-1909.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-slowdebug, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-fastdebug

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: 4/25/2023

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: 2023:1909