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Red Hat: CVE-2018-12547: CVE-2018-12547 IBM JDK: buffer overflow in jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-12547: CVE-2018-12547 IBM JDK: buffer overflow in jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/11/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
03/07/2019
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-demo
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-headless
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-jdbc
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-plugin
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-src
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-8-0-ibm-webstart

References

  • CVE-2018-12547
  • RHSA-2019:0469
  • RHSA-2019:0472
  • RHSA-2019:0473
  • RHSA-2019:0474
  • RHSA-2019:0640
  • RHSA-2019:1238
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