Impact: Critical Public Date: 2019-03-01 CWE: CWE-120 Bugzilla: 1685611: CVE-2018-12547 IBM JDK: buffer overflow in jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() In Eclipse OpenJ9, prior to the 0.12.0 release, the jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() native methods ignored the length parameter. This affects existing APIs that called the functions to exceed the allocated buffer. This functions were not directly callable by non-native user code.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2018-12547 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 8.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | java-1.8.0-ibm | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | java-1.7.1-ibm | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | java-1.8.0-ibm | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | java-1.7.1-ibm | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | java-1.8.0-ibm | Affected |
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