CVE-2015-0437

Public on 2015-01-21
Modified on 2015-01-22
Description
A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK in the way this component generated code for bytecode. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.
Severity
Critical severity
Critical
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2015-01-22 ALAS-2015-472 Fixed

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 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C