CVE-2015-0488

Public on 2015-04-16

Modified on 2015-05-05

Description

A flaw was found in the way the JSSE component in OpenJDK parsed X.509 certificate options. A specially crafted certificate could cause JSSE to raise an exception, possibly causing an application using JSSE to exit unexpectedly.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.0

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Affected Packages

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

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2015-0488 Mitre: CVE-2015-0488