It was discovered that the regular expression handling implementation in the Nashorn JavaScript engine in the Scripting component of OpenJDK could unexpectedly throw StackOverflowError exception when processing a specially crafted regular expression. A JavaScript script could cause the Nashorn engine to exit by compiling a malicious regular expression.
Public now via Oracle CPU October 2019: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2019.html#AppendixJAVA Fixed in Oracle Java SE 13.0.1, 11.0.5, and 8u231.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:3128 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3128
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:3127 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3127
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2019:3134 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3134
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2019:3135 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3135
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2019:3136 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3136
OpenJDK-11 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates/jdk11u/rev/5f4e2a53afc9 OpenJDK-8 upstream commit: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/nashorn/rev/fba077f48da2
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-2975
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary Via RHSA-2019:4113 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4113
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary Via RHSA-2019:4115 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4115
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Satellite 5.8 Via RHSA-2020:0006 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0006
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2020:0046 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0046