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IBM AIX: java_mar2021_advisory (CVE-2020-27221): Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect AIX

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IBM AIX: java_mar2021_advisory (CVE-2020-27221): Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect AIX

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/21/2021
Created
03/24/2021
Added
03/24/2021
Modified
03/24/2021

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-aix-java_mar2021_advisory

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