Modification of information in JRockit and Oracle Java SE - CVE-2016-5552

 

Modification of information in JRockit and Oracle Java SE - CVE-2016-5552

Published: July 5, 2017 / Updated: November 22, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7329
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5552
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to modify information.

The weakness exists due to unknown error in Oracle Java SE Java SE Embedded and Jrockit related to the Networking component. A remote attacker can modify arbitrary data on the system.

Affected software

JRockit
Oracle Java SE
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Content Manager Enterprise Edition

How to mitigate CVE-2016-5552

Install update from vendor's website.

Content Manager Enterprise Edition - update to 8.5.0.6.2

External References

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