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CVE-2016-5542

Public on 2016-10-25
Modified on 2017-06-06
Description

It was discovered that the Libraries component of OpenJDK did not restrict the set of algorithms used for JAR integrity verification. This flaw could allow an attacker to modify content of the JAR file that used weak signing key or hash algorithm.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2017-02-06 18:00 ALAS-2017-795
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-11-18 12:30 ALAS-2016-771
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2017-06-06 16:33 ALAS-2017-835
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-10-27 17:00 ALAS-2016-759
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2017-05-09 23:21 ALAS-2017-827

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 3.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N