CVE-2016-5573

Published: 25 October 2016

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u121, 7u111, 8u102; and Java SE Embedded 8u101 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to Hotspot, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5582.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the Hotspot component of OpenJDK did not properly check received Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) packets. An attacker could use this to send debugging commands to a Java application with debugging enabled.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.3

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	8.3
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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