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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.104690
Category:General
Title:Oracle OpenJDK Vulnerability (CVE-2023-21954)
Summary:Oracle OpenJDK is prone to a vulnerability in the hotspot/gc; component.
Description:Summary:
Oracle OpenJDK is prone to a vulnerability in the hotspot/gc
component.

Vulnerability Insight:
Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated
attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM
Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to
critical data or complete access to all Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition
accessible data.

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 can
also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which
supplies data to the APIs.

Affected Software/OS:
Oracle OpenJDK versions 8, 11 and 17.

Note: The vendor is only evaluating the affected status of supported versions but EOL versions
like 9 or 13 in between the affected versions are also assumed to be affected.

Solution:
See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.

CVSS Score:
5.4

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2023-21954
Debian Security Information: DSA-5430 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5430
Debian Security Information: DSA-5478 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5478
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/
Oracle Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00018.html
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