Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6810-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 6810-1 - It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled certain exceptions with specially crafted long messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Vladimir Kondratyev discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK 8 incorrectly handled address offset calculations in the C1 compiler. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.