CVE-2016-0483 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2016-0483

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u105, 7u91, and 8u66;...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

jdk, jre, jrockit, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, r28.3.8, 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10

Timeline

Official Publish: January 21st, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.