CVE-2020-27221 is a vulnerability in Eclipse Openj9
Published on January 21, 2021
In Eclipse OpenJ9 up to and including version 0.23, there is potential for a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding.
Weakness Type
What is a Stack Overflow Vulnerability?
A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
CVE-2020-27221 has been classified to as a Stack Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-27221
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Affected Versions
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse OpenJ9:- Version unspecified, <= 0.23 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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