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IBM Java: IBM Security Update August 2018 (CVE-2018-1656)

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IBM Java: IBM Security Update August 2018 (CVE-2018-1656)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/20/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/05/2018
Modified
01/30/2020

Description

The IBM Java Runtime Environment's Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java (DTFJ) (IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6.0 , 7.0, and 8.0) does not protect against path traversal attacks when extracting compressed dump files. IBM X-Force ID: 144882.

Solution(s)

  • ibm-java-upgrade-6_0_16_70
  • ibm-java-upgrade-6_1_8_70
  • ibm-java-upgrade-7_0_10_30
  • ibm-java-upgrade-7_1_4_30
  • ibm-java-upgrade-8_0_5_20

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