It was discovered that the Hotspot component in OpenJDK failed to properly handle malformed Shared Archive files. A local attacker able to modify a Shared Archive file used by a virtual machine of a different user could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2014-10-16 22:16 | ALAS-2014-432 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |