ALAS-2018-1039


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1039
Advisory Release Date: 2018-06-08 18:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-06-11 21:33 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.(CVE-2018-3639)


Affected Packages:

java-1.8.0-openjdk


Issue Correction:
Run yum update java-1.8.0-openjdk to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.i686
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.i686
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.i686
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.i686
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.i686
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-zip-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.noarch
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.noarch

src:
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-debuginfo-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-src-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.x86_64
    java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.38.amzn1.x86_64