Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting openjdk-jre package, versions [9.0.0,11.0.14)[12.0.0,17.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.22% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-OPENJDKJRE-2343473
  • published19 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Jan 2022
  • creditFabian Meumertzheim

Introduced: 18 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-21366  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openjdk-jre to version 11.0.14, 17.0.2 or higher.

Overview

openjdk-jre is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. A flaw was found in the way the TIFFFaxDecompressor, TIFFLZWDecompressor, and TIFFPackBitsDecompressor classes implementations in the ImageIO component of OpenJDK handled memory allocations when processing TIFF images. A specially-crafted TIFF image with a small size could cause a Java application to allocate an excessive amount of memory when opened.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1