Bug 1183670 (CVE-2015-0437) - CVE-2015-0437 OpenJDK: code generation issue (Hotspot, 8064524)
Summary: CVE-2015-0437 OpenJDK: code generation issue (Hotspot, 8064524)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-0437
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1179762
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-19 12:42 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-01-26 07:42:21 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0069 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update 2015-01-22 02:38:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:0080 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.8.0-oracle security update 2017-12-15 15:34:38 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2015-01-19 12:42:53 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot JVM code compiler generated optimized code.  An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-20 22:11:29 UTC 
Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2015.  Fixed in Oracle Java SE 8u31.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html#AppendixJAVA
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-21 22:45:46 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0069 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0069.html
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2015-01-22 12:21:41 UTC 
Upstream OpenJDK commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/rev/9906d432d6db
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-01-22 21:25:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0080 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0080.html
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