RHSA-2020:2970HighCVSS 8.3

Red Hat Security Advisory: java-11-openjdk security and enhancement update

Published
July 16, 2020
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (7)

📋 Description

CVE-2020-14556 — OpenJDK: Incorrect handling of access control context in ForkJoinPool (Libraries, 8237117) CVE-2020-14562 — OpenJDK: Excessive memory usage in ImageIO TIFF plugin (ImageIO, 8233239) CVE-2020-14573 — OpenJDK: Incomplete interface type checks in Graal compiler (Hotspot, 8236867) CVE-2020-14577 — OpenJDK: HostnameChecker does not ensure X.509 certificate names are in normalized form (JSSE, 8237592) CVE-2020-14583 — OpenJDK: Bypass of boundary checks in nio.Buffer via concurrent access (Libraries, 8238920) CVE-2020-14593 — OpenJDK: Incomplete bounds checks in Affine Transformations (2D, 8240119) CVE-2020-14621 — OpenJDK: XML validation manipulation due to incomplete application of the use-grammar-pool-only feature (JAXP, 8242136)

🎯 Affected products54

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debugsource-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debugsource-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debugsource-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-debugsource-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-demo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-demo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-demo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-demo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-devel-debuginfo-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-headless-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-headless-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-headless-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • java-11-openjdk-headless-1:11.0.8.10-0.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
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✅ 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 OpenJDK Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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