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CVE-2016-0695

Public on 2016-04-21
Modified on 2016-05-11
Description

It was discovered that the Security component in OpenJDK failed to check the digest algorithm strength when generating DSA signatures. The use of a digest weaker than the key strength could lead to the generation of signatures that were weaker than expected.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2016-05-11 11:00 ALAS-2016-700
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-04-27 16:15 ALAS-2016-693
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-04-21 16:00 ALAS-2016-688

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N