CVE-2018-12548 Memory corruption in Eclipse OpenJ9
Attackers can exploit unsafe native pointer handling in Eclipse OpenJ9 to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to code execution or crashes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-12548?
CVE-2018-12548 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9, published on 31 Jan 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In OpenJDK + Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.11.0 builds, the public jdk.crypto.jniprovider.NativeCrypto class contains public static natives which accept pointer values that are dereferenced in the native code.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12548?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Eclipse Openj9.
How do I fix CVE-2018-12548?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-12548 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2018-12548 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12548 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pjrx-f438-j2f3.