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CVE-2014-6468

Public on 2014-10-15
Modified on 2014-10-16
Description

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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.2
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2014-10-16 22:16 ALAS-2014-432

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
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