Out-of-bounds Write Affecting eclipse/openj9 package, versions [,0.24.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ECLIPSEOPENJ9-2365902
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Jan 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-27221  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade eclipse/openj9 to version 0.24.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding.

References

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