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Arch Linux: Access restriction bypass (CVE-2017-3539)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 24, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK did not allow users to restrict the set of algorithms allowed for Jar integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the Jar file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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