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CVE-2015-0469

Public on 2015-04-16
Modified on 2015-05-05
Description

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Severity
Critical
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2015-04-23 00:44 ALAS-2015-515
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2015-04-23 00:44 ALAS-2015-516
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2015-05-05 15:44 ALAS-2015-517

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C