CVE-2016-5554

Publication date 25 October 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u121, 7u111, 8u102; and Java SE Embedded 8u101 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via vectors related to JMX.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that the JMX component of OpenJDK did not sufficiently perform classloader consistency checks. An attacker could use this to bypass Java sandbox restrictions.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openjdk-6	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 6b40-1.13.12-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 6b40-1.13.12-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
openjdk-7	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
openjdk-8	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 8u111-b14-2ubuntu0.16.10.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 8u111-b14-2ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3121-1
OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities
3 November 2016

USN-3130-1
OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities
17 November 2016

USN-3154-1
OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities
8 December 2016