CVE-2011-0872

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-06-07
Bugzilla:
706250: CVE-2011-0872 OpenJDK: non-blocking sockets incorrectly selected for reading (NIO, 6213702)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) component in Oracle Java SE 6 Update 25 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors related to NIO.

Find out more about CVE-2011-0872 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue only affected Java versions running on Windows platform. It did not affect the versions of java-1.6.0-openjdk as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, and the java-1.6.0-sun packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 java-1.6.0-sun Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 java-1.6.0-openjdk Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 java-1.6.0-sun Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 java-1.6.0-openjdk Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 java-1.6.0-sun Not affected

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