REDHAT-BUG-1618767

First published: Fri Aug 17 2018(Updated: )

IBM JDK 8 SR5 FP20 (8.0.5.20), 7 R1 SR4 FP30 (7.1.4.30), 7 SR10 FP30 (7.0.10.30), and 6 SR16 FP70 (6.0.16.70) fix a flaw described by upstream as: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the failure to restrict the use of Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations to only the process owner. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute untrusted native code and gain elevated privileges on the system. References: <a href="https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10719653">https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10719653</a> <a href="https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/#IBM_Security_Update_August_2018">https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/security-vulnerabilities/#IBM_Security_Update_August_2018</a> More details can be found in the Eclipse bugzilla: <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=534589#c3">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=534589#c3</a>

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