Bug 1414562 (CVE-2017-3260) - CVE-2017-3260 OpenJDK: menu handling memory corruption (AWT, 8164143)
Summary: CVE-2017-3260 OpenJDK: menu handling memory corruption (AWT, 8164143)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-3260
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1410614
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-18 20:35 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-01-18 20:37:18 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2017-01-18 20:35:11 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way the AWT component of OpenJDK handled menus.  An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt Java virtual machine memory and bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2017-01-18 20:37:18 UTC 
This issue only affected MacOSX platform.  Therefore, OpenJDK packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux were not affected.
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2017-01-18 20:55:11 UTC 
OpenJDK 8 upstream commits:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/920bb0a994d1
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/270f977a4818
Comment 5 Tomas Hoger 2019-07-29 16:09:13 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affected the versions of OpenJDK, Oracle JDK, and IBM JDK as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This issue only affected JDK versions on the MacOSX platform.
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