CVE-2016-5554

Published: 25 October 2016

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u121, 7u111, 8u102; and Java SE Embedded 8u101 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via vectors related to JMX.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the JMX component of OpenJDK did not sufficiently perform classloader consistency checks. An attacker could use this to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
openjdk-6 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Released (6b40-1.13.12-0ubuntu0.12.04.2)
	trusty	Released (6b40-1.13.12-0ubuntu0.14.04.3)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
	yakkety	Does not exist
openjdk-7 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Released (7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.12.04.1)
	trusty	Released (7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.14.04.1)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
	yakkety	Does not exist
openjdk-8 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (8u111-b14-2ubuntu0.16.04.2)
	yakkety	Released (8u111-b14-2ubuntu0.16.10.2)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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