RockyLinux 8 : java-21-openjdk security update for Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.4 and 9.5 (Moderate) (RLSA-2025:0426)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 216300

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:0426 advisory.

* JDK: Enhance array handling (CVE-2025-21502)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:0426

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 216300

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-0426.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 2/14/2025

Updated: 2/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-21502

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-src, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-devel-fastdebug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-static-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-headless-slowdebug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-javadoc-zip, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-jmods-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-demo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-devel-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-static-libs-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-demo-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-headless-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-slowdebug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-headless-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-src-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-jmods-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-headless-fastdebug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-fastdebug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-static-libs-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-headless-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-headless, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-src-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-devel-slowdebug-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-demo-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-slowdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-devel-fastdebug, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:java-21-openjdk-jmods

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-21502