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Red Hat: CVE-2020-27221: CVE-2020-27221 IBM JDK: Stack-based buffer overflow when converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-27221: CVE-2020-27221 IBM JDK: Stack-based buffer overflow when converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/21/2021
Created
03/09/2021
Added
03/08/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-7-1-ibm
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-7-1-ibm-demo
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-7-1-ibm-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-7-1-ibm-jdbc
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-7-1-ibm-plugin
  • redhat-upgrade-java-1-7-1-ibm-src
  • 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-2020-27221
  • RHSA-2021:0717
  • RHSA-2021:0733
  • RHSA-2021:0736

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