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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.149180
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Oracle OpenJDK DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2023-21835)
Summary:Oracle OpenJDK is prone to a denial of service (DoS); vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Oracle OpenJDK is prone to a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated
attackers with network access via DTLS to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise
Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a
partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition.

Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java
Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code
that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability does
not apply to Java deployments, typically in servers, that load and run only trusted code (e.g.,
code installed by an administrator).

Affected Software/OS:
Oracle OpenJDK versions 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19.

Note: The vendor is only evaluating the affected status of supported versions but EOL versions
like 12 or 16 in between the affected versions are also assumed to be affected.

Solution:
See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2023-21835
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-25
Oracle Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2023.html
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