CVE-2014-0455

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 7u51 and 8, and Java SE Embedded 7u51, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0432 and CVE-2014-2402.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
IBM Forms Viewer: from 4.0.0 before 4.0.0.3; from 8.0.0 before 8.0.1.1 — fixed in 4.0.0.3, 8.0.1.1
Oracle Java SE: 1.7.0-update51, 1.8.0
Oracle Java SE: 1.7.0-update51, 1.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: IBM Forms Viewer 4.0.0.3, 8.0.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0675.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/58974
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-12.xml
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66899
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2187-1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0675.html

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