(RHSA-2015:1021) Important: java-1.5.0-ibm security update

IBM J2SE version 5.0 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM
Java Software Development Kit.

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime
Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. Further information
about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java Security alerts page, listed
in the References section. (CVE-2005-1080, CVE-2015-0138, CVE-2015-0192,
CVE-2015-0459, CVE-2015-0469, CVE-2015-0477, CVE-2015-0478, CVE-2015-0480,
CVE-2015-0488, CVE-2015-0491, CVE-2015-1914, CVE-2015-2808)

The CVE-2015-0478 issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat
Product Security.

Note: With this update, the IBM JDK now disables RC4 SSL/TLS cipher suites
by default to address the CVE-2015-2808 issue. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla
bug 1207101, linked to in the References section, for additional details
about this change.

IBM Java SDK and JRE 5.0 will not receive software updates after September
2015. This date is referred to as the End of Service (EOS) date. Customers
are advised to migrate to current versions of IBM Java at this time. IBM
Java SDK and JRE versions 6 and 7 are available via the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary content sets and will continue to receive
updates based on IBM’s lifecycle policy, linked to in the References
section.

Customers can also consider OpenJDK, an open source implementation of
the Java SE specification. OpenJDK is available by default on supported
hardware architectures.

All users of java-1.5.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, containing the IBM J2SE 5.0 SR16-FP10 release. All running
instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.