QID 378562

Date Published: 2023-06-19

QID 378562: Red Hat OpenJDK 11.0.19 Security Update for Windows Builds (RHSA-2023:1883)

This release of the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 (11.0.19) for Windows serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 (11.0.18) and includes security and bug fixes, and enhancements.

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).
Affected Versions:
Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 (11.0.18) and later Versions and Prior to OpenJDK 11 (11.0.19)

QID Detection Logic (Authenticated):
This QID checks for:
"HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment"
"HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment"
"HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit"
"HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit"
"HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\JRE"
"HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\JRE"
"HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\JDK"
and "HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\JDK" subkeys and fetches JavaHome value, checks for bin\java.exe file existence in the fetched location, performs jar extraction to confirm Red Hat as the vendor, then reads the compare the version for file java.exe and posts the QID on Windows Operating Systems

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).

Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.4 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Critical - 9.4 severity.
  • Solution
    For more information regarding the update RHSA-2023:1883
    Vendor References
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2023:1883 URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1883