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CVE-2021-35561: 
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: Utility). Supported versions affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17 and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition (Oracle CPU Oct 2021).

Technical details

The vulnerability is related to hashing support in Java SE and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. It has a CVSS Base Score of 5.3 (Availability impacts) with vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L. The vulnerability can be exploited remotely without authentication and can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service of Java SE (Oracle CPU Oct 2021).

Impact

Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Java SE and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition (Oracle CPU Oct 2021).

Mitigation and workarounds

Oracle has released patches to address this vulnerability in the October 2021 Critical Patch Update. Users should upgrade to Java SE versions 7u321, 8u311, 11.0.13, 17.0.1 or later, and Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition versions 20.3.4 and 21.2.1 or later (Oracle CPU Oct 2021, Debian Advisory).

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Source: This report was generated using AI

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