RHSA-2021:3885HighCVSS 6.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update

Published
October 20, 2021
Last Modified
November 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (11)

CVE-2021-35556 →CVE-2021-35561 →CVE-2021-35564 →CVE-2021-35565 →CVE-2021-35578 →CVE-2021-35586 →CVE-2021-35588 →CVE-2021-35550 →CVE-2021-35559 →CVE-2021-35567 →CVE-2021-35603 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-35550 — OpenJDK: Weak ciphers preferred over stronger ones for TLS (JSSE, 8264210) CVE-2021-35556 — OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167) CVE-2021-35559 — OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFReader (Swing, 8265580) CVE-2021-35561 — OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in HashMap and HashSet (Utility, 8266097) CVE-2021-35564 — OpenJDK: Certificates with end dates too far in the future can corrupt keystore (Keytool, 8266137) CVE-2021-35565 — OpenJDK: Loop in HttpsServer triggered during TLS session close (JSSE, 8254967) CVE-2021-35567 — OpenJDK: Incorrect principal selection when using Kerberos Constrained Delegation (Libraries, 8266689) CVE-2021-35578 — OpenJDK: Unexpected exception raised during TLS handshake (JSSE, 8267729) CVE-2021-35586 — OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in BMPImageReader (ImageIO, 8267735) CVE-2021-35588 — OpenJDK: Incomplete validation of inner class references in ClassFileParser (Hotspot, 8268071) CVE-2021-35603 — OpenJDK: Non-constant comparison during TLS handshakes (JSSE, 8269618)

🎯 Affected products60

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-accessibility-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debugsource-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debugsource-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debugsource-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-debugsource-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-slowdebug-debuginfo-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
  • java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1:1.8.0.312.b07-1.el8_2.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2)
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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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