INFSA-2025:0422: java-17-openjdk security update for RHEL 8.6, 8.8, 8.10, 9.4 and 9.5

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2025:0422

Type: security

Release date: 2025-03-05 17:38:33 UTC

Information about package

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

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2025-21502

    Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to Oracle Java SE accessible. This vulnerability can be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. This vulnerability also applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. Bug Fix * The Red Hat OpenJDK packages rely on the copy-jdk-configs package to transfer configuration files to a new updated JDK. With this update, the JDK has been updated to use the latest version of copy-jdk-configs, which has been used for some years on later RHEL versions (RHEL-73867, RHEL-73871, RHEL-73872).

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 4.8 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

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