USN-3734-1

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    USN-3734-1

    Published: 10 Aug 2018Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: openjdk-8 vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that the PatternSyntaxException class in OpenJDK did not properly validate arguments passed to it. An attacker could use this to possibly construct a class that caused a denial of service (excessive memory consumption).

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3734-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-2952

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openjdk-8

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    8u66-b01-5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High