CVE-2016-5542

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Published 2016-10-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
3.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
3.1

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 Libraries.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
42%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5542

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5542.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert_us@oracle.com — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed8u111-b14-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
oraclejdk1.6.0
oraclejdk1.7.0
oraclejdk1.8.0
oraclejre1.6.0
oraclejre1.7.0
oraclejre1.8.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.