Security advisory

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  "id": "e4e5700d5af869e20cc3e3c8abebbd10e4682643469d51d5f9e11e4a902a8019",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12547",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-12547",
    "summary": "In Eclipse OpenJ9, prior to the 0.12.0 release, the jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() native methods ignored the length parameter. This affects existing APIs that called the functions to exceed the allocated buffer. This functions were not directly callable by non-native user code.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-12547",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-12547",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-12547"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "04890c30076872e4c5286727d4d63473c41674e8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:openj9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "0.12.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "openj9-0.12.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.12.0-m2",
            "openj9-0.12.0-m1",
            "openj9-0.11.0-rc2",
            "openj9-0.11.0",
            "openj9-0.11.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.10.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.9.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.8.0-rc2",
            "openj9-0.8.0",
            "openj9-0.8.0-rc1",
            "openj9-0.0RC2",
            "openj9-0.0",
            "openj9-0.0M1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12547.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:33.031427617Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0469",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0472",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0473",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0474",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0640",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1238",
        "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=543659"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
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                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux_server",
            "extracted_events": [
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                    "introduced": "6.0"
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                  {
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                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
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                  {
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                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          },
          {
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              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
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              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "6.0"
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                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:satellite",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "5.8"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "5.8"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-12547",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433160,
  "published_at": "2019-02-11T15:29:00.66+00:00"
}