RHEL 6 / 7 : java-1.8.0-oracle (RHSA-2016:1475)
High Nessus Plugin ID 92508
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
An update for java-1.8.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
[Updated 12 September 2016] This advisory has been updated to push packages into the Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Compute Node channels. The packages included in this revised update have not been changed in any way from the packages included in the original advisory.
Oracle Java SE version 8 includes the Oracle Java Runtime Environment and the Oracle Java Software Development Kit.
This update upgrades Oracle Java SE 8 to version 8 Update 101.
Security Fix(es) :
* This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in the Oracle Java Runtime Environment and the Oracle Java Software Development Kit.
Further information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory page, listed in the References section. (CVE-2016-3458, CVE-2016-3498, CVE-2016-3500, CVE-2016-3503, CVE-2016-3508, CVE-2016-3511, CVE-2016-3550, CVE-2016-3552, CVE-2016-3587, CVE-2016-3598, CVE-2016-3606, CVE-2016-3610)
Solution
Update the affected packages.