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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4268-1 (openjdk-8 - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

5 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

It was discovered that the PatternSyntaxException class in the Concurrency component of OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java platform could result in denial of service via excessive memory consumption.

Affected Software

Affected Software

openjdk-8 on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 8u181-b13-1~deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-8 packages. For the detailed security status of openjdk-8 please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)