A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK handled phantom references. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt the Java Virtual Machine memory and, possibly, execute arbitrary code, bypassing Java sandbox restrictions.
Find out more about CVE-2015-0460 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 6.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (java-1.6.0-sun) | RHSA-2015:0858 | 2015-04-20 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (java-1.8.0-oracle) | RHSA-2015:0854 | 2015-04-17 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (java-1.6.0-sun) | RHSA-2015:0858 | 2015-04-20 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (java-1.7.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0806 | 2015-04-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (java-1.8.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0809 | 2015-04-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (java-1.6.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0808 | 2015-04-15 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (java-1.8.0-oracle) | RHSA-2015:0854 | 2015-04-17 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (java-1.7.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0807 | 2015-04-14 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (java-1.6.0-sun) | RHSA-2015:0858 | 2015-04-20 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (java-1.7.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0806 | 2015-04-15 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (java-1.7.0-oracle) | RHSA-2015:0857 | 2015-04-20 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (java-1.7.0-oracle) | RHSA-2015:0857 | 2015-04-20 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (java-1.7.0-oracle) | RHSA-2015:0857 | 2015-04-20 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (java-1.6.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0808 | 2015-04-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (java-1.8.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0809 | 2015-04-15 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (java-1.6.0-openjdk) | RHSA-2015:0808 | 2015-04-15 |
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