CVE-2016-0264

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Published 2016-05-24 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.6

Description

Buffer overflow in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 6 before SR16 FP25 (6.0.16.25), 6 R1 before SR8 FP25 (6.1.8.25), 7 before SR9 FP40 (7.0.9.40), 7 R1 before SR3 FP40 (7.1.3.40), and 8 before SR3 (8.0.3.0) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

66%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
sles		affected
rhel	5.0	affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
suse	11	affected
suse	10	affected
suse	12	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ibm	java_sdk	`{"startIncluding":"6.0.0.0","endExcluding":"6.0.16.25"}`	`6.0.16.25`
redhat	satellite	`5.6`
redhat	satellite	`5.7`
suse	manager	`2.1`
suse	manager_proxy	`2.1`
suse	openstack_cloud	`5`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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