Advisory Published
Updated

REDHAT-BUG-1534543

First published: Mon Jan 15 2018(Updated: )

It was discovered that the DNS client implementation in the JNDI component of OpenJDK did not use random source ports when sending out DNS queries. This would make it easier for a remote attacker to spoof responses to those queries.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
OpenJDK JNDI

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