It was discovered that the implementation of the BasicAttribute class in OpenJDK did not limit the amount of memory allocated when creating object instance from a serialized form. A specially-crafted serialized input stream could cause JVM to consume an excessive amount of memory.
It was discovered that the implementation of the BasicAttribute class in OpenJDK did not limit the amount of memory allocated when creating object instance from a serialized form. A specially-crafted serialized input stream could cause JVM to consume an excessive amount of memory.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/936085d9aff0