vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7208-1 (CVE-2022-42920): Apache Commons BCEL vulnerability

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 7, 2022
Added
Jan 17, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

Apache Commons BCEL has a number of APIs that would normally only allow changing specific class characteristics. However, due to an out-of-bounds writing issue, these APIs can be used to produce arbitrary bytecode. This could be abused in applications that pass attacker-controllable data to those APIs, giving the attacker more control over the resulting bytecode than otherwise expected. Update to Apache Commons BCEL 6.6.0.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libbcel-javaubuntu-upgrade-libbcel-java
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