Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6696-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 6696-1 - Yi Yang discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled array accesses in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code or bypass Java sandbox restrictions. It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 did not properly verify bytecode in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

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