CVE-2015-4749

CVE Details

Release Date:	2015-07-14
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

It was discovered that the JNDI component in OpenJDK did not handle DNS resolution errors correctly. An attacker able to trigger such DNS errors could cause a Java application using JNDI to consume memory and CPU time, and possibly block further DNS resolution.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1526	2015-07-31
Oracle Linux version 5 (java-1.7.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1230	2015-07-16
Oracle Linux version 6 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1526	2015-07-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (java-1.7.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1229	2015-07-15
Oracle Linux version 6 (java-1.8.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1228	2015-07-15
Oracle Linux version 7 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1526	2015-07-31
Oracle Linux version 7 (java-1.7.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1229	2015-07-15
Oracle Linux version 7 (java-1.8.0-openjdk)	ELSA-2015-1228	2015-07-15