ALAS2-2022-1824

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1824
Advisory Release Date: 2022-07-19 01:19 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-07-20 21:35 Pacific
Severity: Important
Issue Overview:

Generated code produced by C1 may leak a package-private class to a class from a different package. (CVE-2022-21540)

MethodHandle.invokeBasic() method can be accessed on byte code level from an arbitrary class. (CVE-2022-21541)

computeNextExponential sometimes returns negative numbers contrary to the documentation. (CVE-2022-21549)

The Xalan Java XSLT library has an integer truncation issue when processing malicious stylesheets. This can be used to corrupt Java class files generated by the internal XSLTC compiler and execute arbitrary Java bytecode. (CVE-2022-34169)


Affected Packages:

java-17-amazon-corretto


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update java-17-amazon-corretto to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    java-17-amazon-corretto-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-devel-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-headless-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-javadoc-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.aarch64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-jmods-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.aarch64

src:
    java-17-amazon-corretto-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.src

x86_64:
    java-17-amazon-corretto-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-devel-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-headless-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-javadoc-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.x86_64
    java-17-amazon-corretto-jmods-17.0.4+8-1.amzn2.1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2022-21540, CVE-2022-21541, CVE-2022-21549, CVE-2022-34169

Mitre: CVE-2022-21540, CVE-2022-21541, CVE-2022-21549, CVE-2022-34169