Denial of service in JRockit and Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-3253

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Denial of service in JRockit and Oracle Java SE - CVE-2017-3253

Published: July 5, 2017 / Updated: November 22, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7333
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3253
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to unknown error in Oracle Java SE Java SE Embedded and Jrockit related to the 2D component. A remote attacker can cause the system to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software

JRockit
Oracle Java SE
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3253

Install update from vendor's website.


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