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REDHAT-BUG-2041400

REDHAT-BUG-2041400: Medium severity openjdk 8 vulnerability

Published Jan 17, 2022

Updated

A flaw was found in the Pattern class implementation in the Libraries component of OpenJDK. A specially crated input could cause the Pattern class to raise an unexpected exception while performing regular expression matching, possibly causing a Java application using the class to misbehave.

Affected Software

1 affected component

ORACLE OpenJDK

Event History

Jan 17, 2022

Data Sourced

via Red Hat·10:01 AM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Frequently Asked Questions

What does an attacker need to trigger this issue?

An attacker needs to supply specially crafted input that is processed by Java regular expression matching through the OpenJDK Pattern class.

What is the likely impact on an affected application?

Pattern may raise an unexpected exception during regular expression matching, which can cause the Java application using it to misbehave.

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