CVE-2015-4749

OpenJDK: DnsClient fails to release request information after error (JNDI, 8075378)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 14, 2015

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the JNDI component in OpenJDK did not handle DNS resolution errors correctly. An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and CPU time, and possibly block further DNS resolution.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime