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).
{
"availability": "No subscription required",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-demo"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-jdk"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-jdk-headless"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-jre"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-jre-headless"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-jre-jamvm"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-jre-zero"
},
{
"binary_version": "8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1",
"binary_name": "openjdk-8-source"
}
]
}
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3734-1.json"
{
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
"cves": [
{
"id": "CVE-2018-2952",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
},
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
},
{
"type": "Ubuntu",
"score": "medium"
}
]
}
]
}