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Posted on 10 August 2018
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4268-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 10, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : openjdk-8
CVE ID : CVE-2018-2952
It was discovered that the PatternSyntaxException class in the
Concurrency component of OpenJDK, an implementation of the Oracle Java
platform could result in denial of service via excessive memory
consumption.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 8u181-b13-1~deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your openjdk-8 packages.
For the detailed security status of openjdk-8 please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/openjdk-8
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
