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CVE-2014-2483

HIGH · 9.3 CVSS v2.0 Published 2014-07-17
Patch available
A vendor patch is available. No clean upgrade release — apply the published patch.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Public exploit Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Unspecified vulnerability in the Java SE component in Oracle Java SE Java SE 7u60 and OpenJDK 7 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-4223. NOTE: the previous information is from the July 2014 CPU. Oracle has not commented on another vendor's claim that the issue is related to improper restriction of the "use of privileged annotations."

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Debian LinuxOperating system
Affected:= 7.0
Enterprise LinuxOperating system
Affected:= 5= 6.0= 7.0
OpenjdkApplication
Affected:= 1.7.0
JdkApplication
Affected:= 1.7.0
JreApplication
Affected:= 1.7.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
M
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

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

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dbcve · scoped
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Recommended fix High confidence

OpenJDK 7 packages from distribution repositories (7u65 or later); Oracle Java SE 7u65 or later

  1. For Debian 7.0: Run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade openjdk-7-jdk' or 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade openjdk-7-jre' to install the latest OpenJDK 7 packages from Debian repositories
  2. For RHEL/CentOS 5/6/7: Run 'yum update java-1.7.0-openjdk' or 'yum update java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel' to install the latest patched OpenJDK 7 packages
  3. Verify the installed version using 'java -version' and ensure it shows a version later than 7u60 (such as 7u65, 7u71, 7u80 or later)
  4. Alternatively, download and install Oracle JDK 7u65 or later from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/
Caveat Java upgrades may introduce subtle compatibility changes in applications relying on specific runtime behaviors; test thoroughly before deploying to production

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