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Red Hat: CVE-2018-12549: CVE-2018-12549 IBM JDK: missing null check when accelerating Unsafe calls (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 11, 2019
Added
Mar 7, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.11.0, the OpenJ9 JIT compiler may incorrectly omit a null check on the receiver object of an Unsafe call when accelerating it.

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