oss-security - Re: CVE Request (minor) -- JVM: heap memory disclosure (possibly various JDKs)

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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:11:28 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Oracle Security Team <secalert_us@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request (minor) -- JVM: heap memory disclosure
 (possibly various JDKs)

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On 09/11/2012 03:18 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> an information disclosure flaw was found in the way certain Java
> Virtual Machines (JVM) used to initialize integer arrays (they have
> had nonzero elements right after the allocation in certain
> circumstances). An attacker could use this flaw to obtain
> potentially sensitive information.
> 
> References (including the reproducer, workaround and further
> details): [1]
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7196857 [2]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856124
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 
> P.S.:  Issue brought to us by Florian Weimer, Red Hat Product
> Security Team (for case someone is tracking the initial reporter)
> 
> P.S#2: Oracle Security Team Cc-ed on this request too (to clarify 
> if CVE id has been assigned to this already or not).
> 

Please use CVE-2012-4416 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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