USN-4337-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities
USN-4337-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities openjdk-8, openjdk-lts vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK. Software Description openjdk-8 – Open Source Java implementation openjdk-lts – Open Source Java implementation Details It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service while processing a specially crafted regular expression. (CVE-2020-2754, CVE-2020-2755) It was discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled class descriptors and catching exceptions during object stream deserialization. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service while processing a specially crafted serialized input. (CVE-2020-2756, CVE-2020-2757) Bengt Jonsson, Juraj Somorovsky, Kostis Sagonas, Paul Fiterau Brostean and Robert Merget discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled certificate messages during TLS handshake. [ more… ]