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CVE-2016-0483: Buffer Overflow

First published: Mon Jan 18 2016(Updated: )

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u105, 7u91, and 8u66; Java SE Embedded 8u65; and JRockit R28.3.8 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to AWT. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this is a heap-based buffer overflow in the readImage function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted image data.

Credit: secalert_us@oracle.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Oracle JDK=1.6.0-update105
Oracle JDK=1.7.0-update91
Oracle JDK=1.8.0-update66
Oracle JRE=1.6.0-update105
Oracle JRE=1.7.0-update91
Oracle JRE=1.8.0-update66
Oracle JRockit=r28.3.8
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=15.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=15.10

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