The following advisory data is extracted from:

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2025/rhsa-2025_0422.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Moderate: java-17-openjdk security update for RHEL 8.6, 8.8, 8.10, 9.4 and 9.5
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2025:0422-03
Product:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:0422
Issue date:         2025-01-22
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2025-21502
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Summary: 

An update for java-17-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.




Description:

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

Security Fix(es):

* JDK: Enhance array handling (CVE-2025-21502)

Bug Fix(es):

* 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).

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258



CVEs:

CVE-2025-21502

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate