Igor Chervatyuk

There is a potential heap buffer overflow in Apache Hadoop libhdfs native code. This issue occurs when a file path provided by a user is opened without validation, which may result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

The issue is related to the LFENCE/JMP module in AMD CPUs, specifically concerning the branch prediction mechanism. This allows an attacker to access protected memory from a program without the necessary privileges by exploiting indirect branch prediction.