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UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27221

In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are c...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS eclipse

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS eclipse

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

report ubuntu.com
report bugs.eclipse.org
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