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USN-2818-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerability

25 November 2015

A security issue was fixed in OpenJDK 7.

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Releases

Packages

  • openjdk-7 - Open Source Java implementation

Details

It was discovered that rebinding of the receiver of a
DirectMethodHandle may allow a protected method to be accessed. Am
attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

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