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IBM AIX: java_jan2019_advisory (CVE-2018-12547): Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects AIX

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IBM AIX: java_jan2019_advisory (CVE-2018-12547): Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects AIX

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/11/2019
Created
04/24/2019
Added
04/23/2019
Modified
05/21/2019

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9, prior to the 0.12.0 release, the jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() native methods ignored the length parameter. This affects existing APIs that called the functions to exceed the allocated buffer. This functions were not directly callable by non-native user code.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-aix-java_jan2019_advisory

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