usn-3734-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-08-10 01:17
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
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).

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  "id": "USN-3734-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:23Z",
  "published": "2018-08-10T01:17:46Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "openjdk-8 vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-2952"
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}



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