Last updated 25 August 2025

A vulnerability was discovered in Tomcat where if a servlet context was configured with readonly=false and HTTP PUT requests were allowed, an attacker could upload a JSP file to that context and achieve code execution.

An old inffast.c optimization turns out to not be optimal anymore with modern compilers, and furthermore was not compliant with the C standard, for which decrementing a pointer before its allocated memory is undefined.

External References:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/0/09/Zlib-report.pdf https://docs.google.com/document/d/10i1KZS5so8xDqH2rplRa2xet0tyTvvJlLbQQmZIUIKE/edit#heading=h.t13tvnx4loq7

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/madler/zlib/commit/9aaec95e82117c1cb0f9624264c3618fc380cecb

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/602

Apache Struts REST Plugin uses an XStreamHandler with an instance of XStream for deserialization without any type filtering, which can lead to remote code execution when deserializing XML payloads.

Apache Struts Jakarta Multipart parser allows for malicious file upload using the Content-Type value, leading to remote code execution.

A race condition was found in the way Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled breakage of the read only private mappings COW situation on write access.

An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to gain write access to otherwise read only memory mappings and thus increase their privileges on the system.

Red Hat is aware of this issue and if you have questions about the affectedness of your system please contact Red Hat Support. For additional information see https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/2706661

It was discovered that the RMI (Java Remote Method Invocation) server implementation in the JMX (Java Management Extensions) component of OpenJDK did not restrict which classes can be deserialized when deserializing authentication credentials. A remote unauthenticated attacker able to connect to a JMX port could possibly use this flaw trigger deserialization flaws.

An improper input sanitization flaw was found in the way JBoss Seam web application framework processed certain parametrized JBoss Expression Language expressions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code via a URL, containing appended, specially-crafted expression language parameters, provided to certain applications based on the JBoss Seam framework. Note: A properly configured and enabled Java Security Manager would prevent exploitation of this flaw.

References: [1] http://seamframework.org/ [2] http://docs.jboss.org/seam/2.2.0.GA/en-US/html/elenhancements.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Meder Kydyraliev of Google Security Team for responsibly reporting this issue.

A denial of service flaw was found in OpenSSL 0.9.8, 1.0.1, 1.0.2 through 1.0.2h, and 1.1.0 in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients.

An out-of-bounds read in cmstypes.c in TypeMLURead function was found, leading to heap memory leak triggered by crafted ICC profile.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/5ca71a7bc18b6897ab21d815d15e218e204581e2

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/288

The following flaw was found in ntpd:

Using a crafted packet to create a peer association with hmode > 7 causes the MATCHASSOC() lookup to make an out-of-bounds reference.

Upstream bugs:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3009

External References:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#April2016NTP428p7Security

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a ntpdc reslist command.

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90, when configured in broadcast mode, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct replay attacks by sniffing the network.

A deserialization flaw was discovered in the jackson-databind in versions before 2.8.10 and 2.9.1, which could allow an unauthenticated user to perform code execution by sending the maliciously crafted input to the readValue method of the ObjectMapper. This issue extends the previous flaw CVE-2017-7525 by blacklisting more classes that could be used maliciously.

A deserialization flaw in jackson-databind was found allowing code execution when given maliocusly crafted input to readValue method of ObjectMapper.

An integer overflow can occur in NTP-dev.4.3.70 leading to an out-of-bounds memory copy operation when processing a specially crafted private mode packet. The crafted packet needs to have the correct message authentication code and a valid timestamp. When processed by the NTP daemon, it leads to an immediate crash.

Apache Struts 2.x before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "%{}" sequence in a tag attribute, aka forced double OGNL evaluation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-0785.

It was discovered that the JPEGImageReader implementation in the 2D component of OpenJDK would, in certain cases, read all image data even if that was not used later. A specially crafted image could cause a Java application to temporarily use an excessive amount of CPU and memory.

It was discovered that the JAR (Java ARchive) verifier in the Security component of OpenJDK did not correctly handle files inside archives with missing digest. An attacker could possibly use this flaw to manipulate content of a singed JAR, bypassing intended verification.

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check for integer overflows when generating range check loop predicates. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt JVM memory and cause it to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code, bypassing Java sandbox restrictions.

It was discovered that the Nashorn JavaScript engine in the Scripting component of OpenJDK could allow JavaScripts to access Java APIs even when access to Java APIs was disabled. An untrusted JavaScript executed by Nashorn could use this flaw to bypass intended restrictions.

A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component of OpenJDK processed extraneous brackets in function signatures. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java certain sandbox restrictions.

Oracle Java SE 7u151 and 8u141 fixes an unspecified vulnerability in the JavaFX component (CVE-2017-10086). Upstream has CVSS scored this issue as: 9.6/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

External Reference:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html#AppendixJAVA

It was discovered that the implementation of the ThreadPoolExecutor class in the java.util.concurrent package of the Libraries component of OpenJDK failed to properly perform access control checks. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

It was discovered that the implementation of the ServiceRegistry class in the ImageIO component of OpenJDK failed to properly perform access control checks. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

It was discovered that the implementation of the AsynchronousChannelGroupImpl class in the java.nio.channels package of the Libraries component of OpenJDK failed to properly perform access control checks. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

It was discovered that the implementation of the TransformerException class in the JAXP component of OpenJDK failed to properly perform access control checks, related to handling of the DTM exceptions. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

It was discovered that the JAXP component of OpenJDK failed to restrict access to certain internal classes. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

The fix for this issue adds the following packages to the package.access security property, which defines the list of restricted internal packages not accessible to untrusted code:

com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver.helpers. com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.resolver.readers.

It was discovered that the DCG (Distributed Garbage Collector) implementation in the RMI component of OpenJDK failed to correctly handle references. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of RMI registry or a Java RMI application.

Oracle Java SE 6u161, 7u151, and 8u141 fixes an unspecified vulnerability in the Deployment component (CVE-2017-10105). Upstream has CVSS scored this issue as: 4.3/CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

External Reference:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html#AppendixJAVA