Red Hat alert RHSA-2026:9682-01 (java-1.8.0-openjdk) [LWN.net]

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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. The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. Security Fix(es): * JDK: Enhance crypto algorithm support (CVE-2026-22007) * JDK: Improve Kerberos credentialing (CVE-2026-22013) * JDK: Enhance Path Factories Redux (CVE-2026-22016) * JDK: Enhance Zip file reading (CVE-2026-22018) * JDK: Enhance certificate chain validation (CVE-2026-22021) * JDK: Updating FreeType 2.14.1 (CVE-2026-23865) * JDK: Enhance key generation (CVE-2026-34268) 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. This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

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