CVE-2018-2798

Severity
5.3MEDIUM
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedApr 19
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: AWT). Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u181, 7u171, 8u162 and 10; Java SE Embedded: 8u161; JRockit: R28.3.17. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (p

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages11 packages

CVEListV5oracle_corporation/java4 versions+3
NVDoracle/jrockitr28.3.17
NVDoracle/jdk4 versions+3
NVDoracle/jre4 versions+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-r8qg-mpx5-wcch: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: AWT)2022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2018-2798: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: AWT)2018-04-19
OSV
CVE-2018-2798: Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE (subcomponent: AWT)2018-04-18

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities2018-06-21
Ubuntu
OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities2018-05-11
Red Hat
OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in Container (AWT, 8189989)2018-04-17
Debian
CVE-2018-2798: openjdk-8 - Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java...2018

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20969 patch: do_ed_script in pch.c does not block strings beginning with a ! character2019-08-29
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12900 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function resulting in a denial of service or possibly code execution2018-06-27
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-2798 OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in Container (AWT, 8189989)2018-04-14